Assignment 1: Discussion—Discrimination in the Workplace

Laws covering discrimination in the workplace are well known and represent areas in which employers are at maximum risk of violation. One of the challenges is that while employers can structure their policies in an attempt to avoid violations, actions of employees are what often result in allegations. As responsible as employers try to be, they are always at some risk when it comes to claims of discrimination.

Tasks:

Click here to read a list of workplace issues.

Select two issues. For each selected issue, state whether the issue is a legal concern, an ethical concern, or both.

In addition, respond to the following questions for each selected issue:

WORKPLACE ISSUES.

Workplace Issues

·         Sam Parker and Malcolm Antoine apply for an inside sales position with your company. Parker is a thirty-two-year-old Caucasian male, and Antoine is a twenty-five-year-old African American male. They have similar backgrounds, although Parker has been in the workforce for a few years more than Antoine and has a little more experience. However, the hiring manager wants to hire Antoine, claiming that his team is not diverse enough.

·         Manny Vargas works for Sunlight International, a retail book company located in Los Angeles, California, where a majority of people speak Spanish. Vargas has been working as a cashier with Sunlight International for three years. The company has fifty-eight employees. Seven of those employees, including Vargas, speak Spanish. Six months ago, Rhoda Woods was hired as Vargas’s new supervisor. Woods notices that every time she checks on Vargas, he appears to be passing negative remarks about her in Spanish among other Spanish-speaking employees. After two months, Woods gets tired of being insulted and decides to implement a rule of speaking only English at Sunlight International.

·         Your company has shifted focus from selling mostly small electronics to promoting larger items. This has resulted in an increased burden on the warehouse staff as the items are heavier and difficult to maneuver. Linda Martinez has been working in the warehouse for seven years. At just over 5 feet tall and 110 pounds, she is the smallest warehouse employee. She was an excellent employee but is now struggling to keep up. In an effort to help her, the warehouse manager reassigns her to a job that doesn’t require her to lift as much weight; however, she disagrees with the move and has filed a discrimination claim with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

·         Amy Price has been with her company for eleven months. Due to reorganization, she was recently moved from being an inventory clerk to a receptionist. The inventory clerk position was eliminated in the restructuring. Price has never been a stellar employee but is now starting to really struggle. Her manager has counseled her numerous times, taking careful notes of the discussions. As the manager works with the human resources (HR) to document a likely termination, Price announces that she is pregnant. Management goes through with the termination a week after the announcement. A month later, Price files a discrimination claim with the EEOC.

·         Jerri Simmons is a Roman Catholic who works for Mackey’s Department Store in Houston, Texas. Simmons is a valuable employee and in the most recent quarter, she sold over $150,000 worth of merchandise in her department. Mackey’s allows its employees only unpaid leave for vacations and does notSimplify the expression and write in simplest radical form

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