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Cara has been a customer service associate at Dalton Department Store for 10 years. Her role involves providing assistance to customers in the store. She converts to Islam and reports to work wearing a burqa, which is a full-body cloak with a small mesh-like screen to see through. Her employer tells her that wearing a burqa violates the company’s dress code for her job profile and asks her to change her attire. Cara refuses to oblige. Her employer, after much deliberation, informs her that she can continue to work in the customer service department and provide assistance over the telephone—a role that requires no face-to-face interaction with a customer. This role change is offered to her without any reduction in pay or other benefits. Which of the following is most likely to be TRUE in this case? 

Cara has been a customer service associate at Dalton Department Store for 10 years. Her role involves providing assistance to customers in the store. She converts to Islam and reports to work wearing a burqa, which is a full-body cloak with a small mesh-like screen to see through. Her employer tells her that wearing a burqa violates the company’s dress code for her job profile and asks her to change her attire. Cara refuses to oblige. Her employer, after much deliberation, informs her that she can continue to work in the customer service department and provide assistance over the telephone—a role that requires no face-to-face interaction with a customer. This role change is offered to her without any reduction in pay or other benefits. Which of the following is most likely to be TRUE in this case? 

In which types of discrimination claims must an employer make reasonable attempts to accommodate the employee? 

Allison dated Jacob, her supervisor, for three months. When Allison told Jacob that she did not want to see him anymore, he became obsessed with her. He started e-mailing her at work, dropping by her house, and stalking her after work. Jacob gave Allison a poor review, and eventually, she was fired. In this situation: 

Roberts Brothers terminates Anwar, a homosexual employee of Middle-Eastern descent. Anwar believes that his termination was unlawful. Which of the following is TRUE in this scenario? 

Fetal protection policies are designed to: 

Rob works at Corner Gym as the office secretary. His male co-workers are all trainers and fitness specialists. They refer to Rob as a “pretty man” because he does not lift weights, and they routinely call him “Roberta.” They sometimes even go to the extent of imitating the way he walks and behaves and telling him that he acts like a girl. Rob is very disturbed because of the way he is treated at work. Which of the following holds true in this scenario? 

An employee may successfully sue for religious discrimination on the basis of which of the following? 

Title VII (of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) requires employers to accommodate an employee’s religious practices and beliefs: 

A local TV station had an opening for an evening sportscaster. Yvonne, a recent graduate with a degree in broadcast journalism, applied for the job. She was not hired on the basis that the job is restricted to men, as it involves interviewing players on high school football teams, which requires the sportscaster to spend a lot of time in the men’s locker rooms.  Does Yvonne have a claim for gender discrimination?