Religious Diversity

An employee decorates the office for Christmas and angers another employee...

Tags: diversity, discrimination, differences, religion, religious diversity, 2008

Space Invasion

Co-workers have a conversation and one co-worker requires more personal space...

Tags: harassment, discrimination, differences, culture, cultural differences, 2008

Defamation

A manager tells an employee that she fired someone and proceeds...

Tags: lawful termination, fire, terminate, wrongful termination, defamation, termination

Surprise Termination

A manager terminates an employee without giving the employee any warning...

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

Off Duty Conduct

Here, we see an example of employees having drinks after work...

Tags: after hours, off-duty conduct, off-duty, harassment, bar, happy hour

What Not To Ask In An Interview

A clueless manager asks a series of inappropriate questions in a...

Tags: personal questions, equal opportunity, hire, hiring, discrimination, eeo

Fed Up

Employees continue to tease their co-worker about his Asian ethnicity and...

Tags: harassment, preventing harassment, hostile work environment, severe and pervasive, google

Lauren's Performance Review

A manager offers to conduct his employee's performance review over dinner....

Tags: google , romantic exchange, quid pro quo, preventing harassment, harassment, types of harassment

The Look

An employee's manager tells her he likes her outfit and that...

Tags: google , types of harassment, types, hostile work environment, preventing harassment, harassment

The Once Over

A manager gives her subordinate employee a leering type of look...

Tags: google , preventing harassment, harassment, borderline conduct, borderline, leering

The Lunchroom

Three co-workers are eating lunch together when the situation gets tense...

Tags: google , ph7, harassment, protected traits, protected categories, definition

Emailing the Picture

Two co-workers download something risque from the Internet and show it...

Tags: google , email, harassment, visual, verbal, physical

What Should Doug Do?

An employee confides to her manager that another co-worker feels uncomfortable...

Tags: google , harassment, manager, responsibility, liability, supervisor

The Ride Home

A manager abuses her authority and repeatedly asks her subordinate employee...

Tags: parties, harassment, google

The Client

A manager asks his subordinate employee to have lunch with their...

Tags: harassment, definition, parties, clients, vendors