Human Resource Management Applications: Cases, Exercises, Incidents and Skill Builders.

Is This Unlawful Discrimination?

Instructions

Read Exercise 17, Is This Unlawful Discrimination? on p. 56 of Human Resource Management Applications: Cases, Exercises, Incidents and Skill Builders. There are 15 situations covered in the exercise. Write a memo to management that addresses the following questions for each situation:

What legal statute(s) apply in this case?

What issue(s) must the court decide in this case?

If you were the judge, how would you rule?

Did the employer discriminate unlawfully?

Why or why not?

What are the organizational implications of permitting discriminatory behavior to continue?

Conclude your memo with a paragraph that addresses the following questions:

What should the line manager have done in each situation?

What should the HR professionals have done in each of these situations?