Which of the following is true about gender-based grooming policies at the workplace?

Managers investigating sexual harassment claims by an employee should:

Lucy, a teacher at a private non-religious school, becomes pregnant before her marriage. When she informs the management of the school about her pregnancy, she is told that she cannot keep her job because having an unwed, pregnant teacher and, later, an unwed mother, is bad for the school’s reputation. Lucy feels that her employer’s action is discriminatory. Which of the following statements is true in this situation?

When pay discrimination occurs, the statute of limitations begins to run anew with each paycheck.

Bob testified for the plaintiff in a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a female employee against their employer, Panda Bank. He had been advised by his manager not to get involved. Shortly thereafter, Bob was fired. Which of the following is the most likely outcome in this scenario?

Residency requirements for government employment can create an unlawful disparate impact when the locale has a low minority population.

Mary works as a salesperson at Bob’s Greenhouse. While demonstrating to a customer how to use a hedge trimmer, she accidentally cuts the customer on the arm, requiring a visit to the hospital and several stitches. Which of the following is true of the scenario?

Mary, a U.S. citizen, was employed with Blue Whale Mica Inc. in its London office. Blue Whale Mica Inc. is a Delaware-based corporation with its principle place of business in New York. Mary was recently laid off, and she believes she was a victim of gender discrimination. In this scenario, Mary:

Emmanuel & Petersen LLP is a reputed law firm that specializes in litigation. The firm is looking for a qualified person to fill the secretary position. A criterion for selection is that the person should be able to type at least 65 words a minute. If a group of male applicants challenges this policy as being discriminatory against generally slower-typing males, the company could defend the typing-speed requirement as a:

Since women are the people who can conceive and maintain a pregnancy, employers can apply fetal protection policies to women and not men without violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.