Employers should not take anonymous complaints of sexual harassment seriously as they violate the due process rights of the alleged harasser.

In employment law, “glass ceilings” are the invisible, artificial and attitudinal barriers in the workplace. 

When a female employee is repeatedly verbally harassed about doing men’s work, taking away the job a man should have, or simply inappropriately working at a traditionally male job, that behavior can constitute sexual harassment.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:

Mary and Bob are part of the cheese production team at the Heath Dairy. All of the team members share a harmonious work relationship. However, a calendar featuring a semi-nude woman in a sexually suggestive pose on Bob’s desk makes Mary uncomfortable. She asks Bob to remove it, but Bob does not oblige, insisting that he has been getting that same brand of calendar for five years and sees no reason to replace it now. To file and prevail on a sexual harassment claim, Mary must prove that:

Which of the following refers to a clause in a contract that identifies the state law that will apply to any disputes that arise under the contract?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 permits employer actions that discriminate based on race-linked illness.

Roberto, a African American employee at Eager Beaver Tire Manufacturing Company, contacted the plant manager to inform him that his supervisor, Bill, treated him in a bad manner simply because he was African American. After Bill learned that Roberto had complained, Bill told other supervisors that Roberto was lazy and irresponsible, and he made jokes about Roberto’s accent. Which of the following holds true in this scenario?

Anna City Hospital, a private hospital, employs five workers of Middle Eastern descent in its maintenance department. Though they were told that they would be performing different tasks on a rotation basis, the maintenance supervisor assigns only the five of them, out of the total 20 maintenance employees, to clean the morgue and the basement every time. Although they requested the hospital’s management to change their duties, no changes were made. Which of the following holds true in this case?

Under the common-law agency test, the most critical factor in determining employee status is whether a(n):