What Is Shoreline Power Company Adequate To Discrimination?

Shoreline Power Company, located in southeast Mississippi, offers electricity to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southeast Mississippi. Reports have surfaced that employees of this company have suffered unfair treatment relative to compensation. According to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, no employer will be allowed to discriminate based on gender (The Equal Pay Act Turns 40, 2003). Signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy, the Equal Pay Act was aimed at abolishing wage disparity between genders. Likewise, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Civil Rights Act, 1964). Therefore, law forbids employers in the United States to discriminate in regard

The average gender breakdown in the state of Mississippi is 48.6% male and 51.4% female. While the percentages are comparable, Shoreline Power Company employs more males than females compared to the demographics of Mississippi. The risible data are the racial breakdown as percentages of Shoreline Power Company. The company employs 78.05% white employees and 21.9% non-white employees. The racial breakdown of the state of Mississippi is as follows: 59.8% white citizens and 40.2% non-white citizens (State & County Quick Facts, 2015). While the racial and gender breakdowns of Shoreline Power Company compared to the state of Mississippi do not prove that management at Shoreline Power are discriminating against some employees, the percentages show the types and amount of hiring in the company compared to the demographics of the state of Mississippi. There are ample potential employees, non-whites and females in the state of Mississippi, yet Shoreline Power continues to employ a majority white and male

What if compensation is fairly based on amount of education and work experience? Table 2 shows work experience based on gender and race. The findings in this graph show that minority males and minority females have the most work experience among the random sample of Shoreline Power Company. Based on work experience, minority males and minority females should be among some of the highest paid employees; however, this is not the case. Furthermore, Table 3 shows years of education based on gender and race. This table shows that white males on average have the highest level of education between race and gender at Shoreline Power Company. While this graph could support white males in having the best compensation at the company, the distribution among other races and gender are similar. When looking at compensation in Table 1, the difference between each category is much more noticeable rather than the more equal difference found in Table 3. If employees at Shoreline Power Company were compensated based on education level, employees would be compensated more fairly. However, as it has been proven, employees are not being compensated