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Unit 3 15. Title VII Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation, prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Unit 3 Title VII also prohibits discrimination against an individual because of his or her association with another individual of a particular race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. An employer cannot discriminate against a person because of his interracial association with another, such as by an interracial marriage. Unit 3 16. McJob McJob is slang for a low-paying, low-prestige dead end job that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intracompany advancement. The term McJob comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonalds, but is used to describe any low-status job — regardless of the employer — where little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers activities are tightly regulated by managers. Unit 3 Most perceived McJobs are in the service industry, particularly fast food, coffee shops, telemarketing, retail and business-to-business copywriting. Working at a low paying job, especially one at a fast food restaurant, is also referred to as flipping burgers. Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 Unit 3 1. prospective employer A prospective employer is an employer for whom you might work in the future or have a possibility of working (for example, an employer to whom you have applied for work or for whom you would like to work), but you are not yet working. Unit 3 2. internal recruiters Internal recruiters are employees of the employer with the open jobs, usually part of the employers Human Resources organization. They are a