Please answer the following questions with complete sentences. Questions that ask for your analysis and opinion must state more than just a conclusion...you must also provide your reasoning and/ or facts and arguments that support your conclusion. Relevant laws and/ or legal principles should be identified and defined as part of your answer. You must also include the question number and question with your answers.

1. List and briefly explain what the three general defenses are that an employer can raise if sued for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?

2. What is the process for filing a suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act? Be specific about who the process starts with and each step that occurs after that.

3. What accommodations might an employer be expected to make for a disabled employee? What standard is used to determine whether an employer would be expected to make these accommodations?

4. Select one of the employment discrimination statutes addressed in Chapter 19 and explain either why you believe it is an essential and necessary statute and how it positively effects employers and employees, or take the opposite view and explain why you think the statute is not good, either in concept or in how the courts interpret and apply it.