Today, Americans enjoy substantial employment rights. Among the most significant are the rights of equality in employment opportunity—the rights of non-discrimination in employment practices. But those rights do not stand alone. They have been armed with weapons of enforcement —they have been coupled with the remedies necessary to make them effective. If equal employment rights have been violated . . . circumvented . . . ignored . . . if there has been discrimination in fact (though possibly not in form), a battery of relief mechanisms is at hand.

It is a battery, moreover, which is constantly changing. Each year new decisions are handed down by the Supreme Court which greatly affect the available remedies. Indeed, the Supreme Court recently announced a landmark decision fundamentally altering the burden of proof scheme in employment discrimination cases. Further, Congress has become increasingly active in changing the legal landscape in this area. Not only has it recently enacted legislation to create new, sweeping rights and remedies for the disabled—the Americans With Disabilities Act -but it has also acted swiftly to overturn important Supreme Court pronouncements, such as Patterson, Ward, Cove, and Betts, that it found overly restrictive, and passed the Civil Rights Art of 1991.

In other words, the field is dynamic; some would term it explosive. You can judge for yourself which depiction is more appropriate. For that is what this special course is all about.

Developed by Federal Publications, the course is designed to instruct you in the range and intricacies of available equal employment remedies. You will learn: (a) where claims can be presented; (b) the requirements for their presentation; (c) the advantages and disadvantages of various avenues of relief; (d) methods of gathering critical information; (e) key factors in the preparation necessary to press or resist claims; (f) techniques of employee claims presentation; and (g) tactics of employer defense against claims.