In light of ”Employment discrimination”, answer the following questions on this case:
A Financial services company has one female manager, Mrs. Amy, who is a supervisor of the tax department. Her mannerisms are quite abrupt and rough and many of the company clients complained her. The company decided that the image of its firm needs a female manager who should act like a female and it might be better if Mrs. Amy was not in a managerial position. Mrs. Amy, as a supervisor of the tax department, hired a number of young employees. She decided to become more friendly with them. She invited one of these young employees, Tony, to go out to dinner and movie. He politely refused. She repeated to ask him out and he continued to refuse. He was getting so upset from her advances that he considered quitting.Tony also has Diabetes and he was under insulin therapy. Mrs. Amy had considered firing Tony because his insulin injections required at least one hour of his work which disrupted many special projects.
Q1: Does Mrs. Amy have any legal issues with the company regarding her mannerisms? Explain your answer.
Q2: Does Tony have a case against the company with respect to Mrs. Amy’s advances? How could the company protected itself?
Expert Answer
Ans. 2 From above information in question, Tony does not have a case against the company, but he should go for sexual harassments case against Mrs. Amy who repeated to ask him for out for dinner and movie bur he continued to refuse. This advances from Amy upset him from his work. Company could protected itself as Tony was under insulin therapy and for his insulin injections he required at least one hour of his work which disrupted many special projects of the company.