For the following scenario, please identify which employment law applies and exp

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For the following scenario, please identify which employment law applies and explain how and why the law you identified applies.

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Question: Jaggi is an observant Sikh who is required to wear a turban while in public. When he applied for a job as a traffic enforcement agent (a meter maid) he was told ‘to remove that towel from his head.” When Jaggi explained to HR that his religion requires him to wear a turban, the HR manager said, “We have a policy that all meter maids wear a uniform. No exceptions.”

Answer: Title VII on the basis of religion

Question 1. Bob is a division supervisor who feels that Michael is disrupting the workplace by talking to the other workers about joining the local union. Michael talks to his fellow co-workers about the union during his lunch break and has agreed to answer any of their questions after hours.

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Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act 5 U.S.C. Sections 7101-7135 grants federal employees the right to be represented by a union for purposes of collective bargaining and prohibits discrimination in employment based on union activity. The NLRA gives employees the rights to join unions; engage in conduct aimed at promoting or helping unions; choose a union to represent them in collective bargaining with their employer; and engage in group conduct that has as its purpose collective bargaining or helping each other regarding workplace issues. The law also says that employees have the right not to do these things if that is their desire. if an employee’s political expression interferes with his/her work, disrupts his/her co-workers, or infringes upon a business objective, the employer can take action consistent with its written policies and practices. To the extent that you limit political expression, limit only the types of expression that might harm productivity in the workplace, impact customer, client, vendor or similar relationships or otherwise disrupt work.

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