Organizations spend billions of dollars to comply to comply with federal regulations and direct most of the duties associated with compliance to their HR departments. The growing requirements of equal employment opportunity laws comprise a large portion of human resource managers’ compliance responsibilities. The growth of equal employment opportunity has given employees specific rights in their relationship with their employers. Employees’ rights were not widely publicized or seen as front – page news prior to the early 1970s. Now it seems that a key story appears daily dealing with employees’ rights, equal opportunity, or diversity.