Title VII Case: Constructive Discharge

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| Company Name Here | Memo To: CEO From: Danielle Lenglade CC: Legal Date: [ 10/21/2011 ] Re: Title VII Case Constructive discharge is not relative to this scenario. Work conditions were not with the specific intent for the employee to resign. According to the information provided the work schedule changed for all employees and not just this specific employee. According to Dempsey and Petsche “constructive discharge occurs when as employee is legally justified in claiming that he or she was compelled to resign because the employer has made working conditions intolerable”. (Finnegan, 1986) In the information giving we as company required all employees to work four twelve hours shifts then have 4 days off. Thusly not discriminating against one…show more content…
Thusly the employee will only work on a “holy day” six times per 90 nightey days. The areas covered in Title VII of the civil rights act of 1964 are Religious Discrimination and reasonable accommodation, and undue hardship. Reasonable hardship and accommodations states employers do not have to make accommodations, if those accommodations cause hardship to the company or other employees. (http://www.eeoc.gov/, September 2011) In the information given we are told that factory changed its work schedule because of growth. Due to production increases the factory is requiring the shift change. To keep up with the increase order demands. Changing the schedule could cost the company money in lost product. The company should respond to the employee’s charge of constructive discharge by stating work schedule was required by all employees and was not specific to this particular employee. As a company we do let you accrue paid time off for personal use. This can be supported by the court cast Ansonia Board of education V. Philbrook. The courts

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