Overview
Mod 1: After reading Chapters 1 - 3, answer the following questions in 200 words or more. Place the essay answer in the submission box as a single Word Doc.
Fact Pattern 1: A restaurant employing 80 total employees and 40 waitstaff has a policy of requiring college degrees for all waitstaff. The policy results in only 15% of the applicant pool to be minority. However, the surrounding community is approximately 35% minority (i.e., members of a protected class by race or national origin). Why type of discrimination could this be? And why? Fact Pattern 2: The same restaurant in Fact Pattern 1 has a policy that all pregnant employees must not be employed as regular waitstaff and must instead either work as a hostess or bartender only as their belief is waitstaff is too strenuous work and would require them to allow work breaks for rest and customers prefer waitstaff without bulging midsections. A group of pregnant employees
Fact Pattern 2: The same restaurant in Fact Pattern 1 has a policy that all pregnant employees must not be employed as regular waitstaff and must instead either work as a hostess or bartender only as their belief is waitstaff is too strenuous work and would require them to allow work breaks for rest and customers prefer waitstaff without bulging midsections. A group of pregnant employees bring suit. What type of discrimination would they allege and what would be the basis of their claim? Is it a different type of discrimination than Fact Pattern Mod 2
After reading Chapters 4 - 6, answer the following questions in 200 words or more. Place the essay answer in the submission box as a single Word Doc by Sunday at 11:59pm.
Fact Pattern 1:
Your company provides a service to local businesses wherein office supplies are delivered daily on demand to the local area. Your son's friend is looking for work and you know him well and hire him on the spot to be a delivery driver. A few weeks later he is in the process of making a delivery and hits a pedestrian crossing the street severely injuring him. Police come and measure his blood alcohol at .15 (nearly twice the legal limit). Turns out that your son's friend was previously convicted of DUI approximately 6 months ago. You did not conduct a background check before hiring. On what basis/bases would the pedestrian have the ability to file suit against the company?
Fact Pattern 2:
A company recently opened a branch office in Colorado (where recreational marijuana is legal). The company has a policy of drug testing every new applicant before hiring. What are the potential pitfalls of this policy? Are there concerns regarding policy? Does this affect the potential applicant pool?
Keep the following in mind when drafting your essay:
1) Proper APA format MUST be used.