The Strategy Session

A manager criticizes his employee for being "too aggressive" and not...

Tags: gender bias, bias, gender, discrimination, eeo, assumptions

Bias & Assumptions

A manager assumes two female employees are gossiping and two male...

Tags: gender, assumptions, bias, diversity, eeo, equal opportunity

I'm Not Chinese

A hiring manager tells his new employee about the Chinese food...

Tags: asian, chinese, jason, inclusion, diversity, bias

Religion in the Workplace

A manager invites his direct report to a church meeting....

Tags: diversity, bias, religion, eeo, church, discrimination

Age Bias in Hiring

A hiring manager has a bias against an older worker and...

Tags: kelly, older worker, old, bias in hiring, hiring, discrimination

Running a Background Check

A manager runs a background check on her employee after he's...

Tags: references, background check, background, hiring, hire, background checks

Congratulations!

A female employee gets married and then a year later, she...

Tags: pregnancy discrimination, discrimination, diversity, pregnancy, married, marital

The Stutterer

An employee has a speech disability and his co-worker his reluctant...

Tags: disability, discrimination, eeo, equal opportunity, ada, diversity

Medical Leave and the ADA

An employee requests an additional week of medical leave and the...

Tags: disability, ada, accommodation, reasonable accommodation, failure to accommodate, 2008

Stinky Food

An employee offends her co-worker when she comments about the stinky...

Tags: kelly, linda , diversity issues, differences, national origin, diversity

Showing Good Cause To Terminate

A manager walks an employee through all the documentation of poor...

Tags: termination, wrongful termination, good cause, discipline, terminate, fire

Implied Employment Contract

A manager lays off a long term employee without warning or...

Tags: employee handbook, personnel rules, at-will employment, lawful termination, fire, terminate

No Haggling

In response to a customer than won't pay, a manager tells...

Tags: dave, stereotypes, diversity, discrimination, differences, religion

Language Conflicts at Work

Three employees work together and two speak Spanish together. The third...

Tags: language barriers, english only rule, english only, english, diversity, discrimination

Patrick or Patricia

A lunch scene where an employee teases about the sexual orientation...

Tags: dave, preventing harassment, unwelcome conduct, unwelcome, harassment, ph7