What amendments under the constitution affect individuals at

What amendments under the constitution affect individuals at the workplace and why?

Solution

The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution limit the power of the federal and state governments to discriminate. The private sector is not directly constrained by the Constitution.

The Fifth Amendment has an explicit requirement that the Federal Government not deprive individuals of \"life, liberty, or property,\" without due process of the law and an implicit guarantee that each person receive equal protection of the laws.

The Fourteenth Amendment explicitly prohibits states from violating an individual\'s rights of due process and equal protection. Equal protection limits the State and Federal governments\' power to discriminate in their employment practices by treating employees, former employees, or job applicants unequally because of membership in a group, like a race, religion or sex. Due process protection requires that employees have a fair procedural process before they are terminated if the termination is related to a \"liberty,\" like the right to free speech, or a property interest.