Just Systems Inc. often hires Abdul to train its employees. He is paid $300 for every session. His job also requires him to travel once a month to different branches of Just Systems and train employees there. When he is required to travel, the company pays him $450 per session. All training materials have to be provided by Abdul himself. When he is not hired by Just Systems, Abdul works for other smaller companies as a trainer. Thus, Abdul is most likely a(n):

Which of the following statements is true of the case of Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson?

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, employers are strictly prohibited from asking job applicants with disabilities about:

Mary was employed as a flight attendant by Penguin Airlines. She was the only black female flight attendant on the airplane she was assigned to. At her job, Mary was frequently subjected to racial slurs, misbehavior, and threats from her co-workers. One co-worker even told their supervisor that the airline’s customers would not want to take orders from a black girl in the case of an in-flight emergency. Unable to tolerate the hostile environment, Mary quit her job. Which of the following holds true in this scenario?

In addition to national origin encompassing an employee’s place of birth, it also includes ethnic characteristics or origins, but it does not include physical, linguistic, or cultural traits closely associated with a national origin group.

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: