Constitutional Rights
One of the constitutional rights that have been violated by Riordan Manufacturing is that of discrimination by age. When the position of the corporations executive officer (CEO) became vacant, two long time company veterans were considered to fill the position. In the companies human resource employee files is a memorandum comparing and contrasting the two canidates, Hugh McCauley, the fifty-six year old corporate operations officer and Kenneth Collins, the sixty year old manager of research and development, in areas of competency. The areas of evaluation when considering both of these men where based on technical skill, their relationship with team members, their relationships with the customers, financial competancy, and age. By using the factor of age in the evaluation and decision process of replacing the CEO the company not only violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967,which prohibites age discrimination in employment (EEOC 1967), but they also violated their......
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