HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIO

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHETICAL SCENARIO TO ANSWER FOLLOWING 5 QUESTIONS.EACH QUESTION IS WORTH 20 POINTS  FOR A TOTAL OF 100 POINTS.

 

SCENARIO

Janet Johnson , an african woman has been working at the tennesse hydrorlrctric for 15 years. During that time, her performance remains have been exemplary.  She decided to apply for the new plant foreman position althought she felt that she was eminently qualfied for the position, she also has eminently qualified for the position, she also was growing tired of a certain good old boy culture of highly send “Jokes” , and many of the employee had also, engaged in inappropriate touching of female engaged inappropriate touching of female employees. The plant had an anti-harrassment policy on record, but Janet’s boss shaugged and said “boys will be boys” when she reported the harrassment to him.

Competition for the position fierce. But ultimatity , jose martinez, a chilean man, received the position. Jose had 7 years of experience. Unbeknownst to the applicants the promotion board secretly ran a credit check on the applicants. Janet credit score came in as lower as average, and this fact ored into the board’s decision. Although he met the managers told Janet in confidence that Janet was the most qualified person for the job. And the other managers had applied a racial preference on Jose’s behalf due to there never having been a latino manager at the plant even though latino’s represented 35% of employees at the plant. Janet eves the plant for disparate treatment disparate impact, and sexual harrassment under Title VII.