Identify the Employee Characteristics That Are Protected by Federal Employment

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Essay

Identify the employee characteristics that are protected by federal employment laws with regard to anti-discrimination (i.e., the characteristics upon which employers are not legally allowed to discriminate). Specify which human resource management decisions these laws affect.

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Definitions:

Inductor

An inductor is a passive electronic component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it, used in various filtering, tuning, and energy storage applications.

Lenz's Law

A principle in electromagnetism stating that induced currents will flow in a direction that opposes the change causing them.

Polarity

The characteristic of having two opposed attributes or poles, commonly used in reference to the direction of electrical current or magnetism.

Ohm's Law

A fundamental principle in electrical engineering that states the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points and inversely proportional to the resistance.