17) Mahinder, a practicing Sikh, is hired by Octogon Steel Fabricators as a fork

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17) Mahinder, a practicing Sikh, is hired by Octogon Steel Fabricators as a forklift driver. OSHA regulations and company policies require all employees in the plant to wear a hardhat. Mahinder refuses to wear the hardhat because he is unwilling to cover his turban. Octogon fires Mahinder, who files a religious discrimination claim under Title VII. What is the result?

a. Mahinder will prevail because a turban is enough protection for his head.

b. Mahinder should ask a Sikh priest for a special dispensation to wear the hardhat on the grounds that an employee has a duty to cooperate with the employer.

c. Mahinder will prevail because Octogon's management is ignorant about the Sikh religion.

d. Octogon will prevail because compromising safety is an undue hardship.

Question 19 Pam worked as a security guard. The other security guards, all men, routinely verbally harassed her because she was "doing a man's job." Additionally, they would hide her badge and keys to the client's doors. Her uniform was splattered with grease and motor oil was poured inside her purse while it was in her locker. Pam complained to her supervisor, who asked if any of the men had ever touched her. When she said no, the supervisor said there was nothing that could be done to stop it and the conduct was "just horseplay." Does Pam have a claim?

a. Pam does have a claim for sexual harassment because she is being harassed because she is a woman

. b. Pam does not have a claim for sexual harassment because none of the men have touched her in a sexual way.

c. Pam does not have a claim for sexual harassment because no tangible employment action has been taken with regard to her job.

d. None of the above choices is correct.

Question 24 The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act:

a. extends the statute of limitations for gender discrimination under Title VII from 180 days to 300 days.

b. allows the statute of limitations to re-set each time a paycheck is issued based on pay discrimination.

c. extends the statute of limitations for pay discrimination from 180 days to 300 days.

d. was never signed into law.

Question 25 Title VII makes it unlawful for an employer to make employment decisions that discriminate based on religion, and

a. unlike prohibitions against race and gender discrimination, this is not an absolute prohibition.

b. like prohibitions against race and gender discrimination, this is an absolute prohibition.

c. the employer can discriminate against an individual based on religion if there is a compelling reason to do so.

d. None of the above choices are correct.

Explanation / Answer

1. In this case the reasult octogen will prevail because compromising safety is an undue hardship, as it is the matter of the safety , company allow its employee to wear hardhat because of the safety reason and so turbon is not enough to protect the head , so he has to follow the company policy to protect themselves from any of the mishappening.

2.In this case pam has the case of sexual harrasment , pam does have to claim sexual harrasment because shi is being harrased because she is a women , no body has right to harras anyone on the basis of sexual discrimination.

3. In the lily ledbetter fair pay act , under this act etend the statute of limitations for pay discrimination from 180 days to 300 days , as this act was signed by the president obama on 29 january 2009,to proect the wage discrimination.

4. Title vii makes it unlawful for an employer to make employment decision that discriminate based on religion and like prohibitation against race and gender discrimination , this is an absolute prohibitation.

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