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Read Case 8.1, AIDS in the Workplace. Then make two separate posts. First, answer the following questions: 1. Who is affected by the way Carla handles this situation, and what does she owe to each of them? What rights, if any, are at stake? 2. Will it make a difference if Carla adopts a Kantian or a utilitarian approach to the situation? Why? 3. What should Carla do? (Can be several steps.) Remember: Carla has not even talked with Tom at this point. In the second post, you should respond to someone else's post either to further what has been said or to disagree with it. Please be sure your second post adds something of substance to the discussion--don't just agree with the original post. Your posts are due midnight Thursday and Sunday. CHAPTER EIGHT THE WORKPLACE (1): BASIC ISSUES 317 FOR FURTHER REFLECTION 1. Give examples. If possible from your own employment experiences, of companies respecting the rights of employees and of companies tailing to do so 2. When it comes to a company's personnel policies and procedures that is, how it handed the hiring, fring, promoting and paying of the people who work k for what do you see as the most important moral principles for it to bear in mind? 3. Explain why you either support or disapprove of unions CASE 8.1 AIDS in the Workplace CARLA LOMBARD ALWAYS WORKED WELL Carta that Tom had AIDS. Frances said she was telling Cara with people. So when she opened her Better Bagets bage because she always liked her and thought she was entitled shop seven years ago, she anticipated that managing her to know because she was Tom's employer. Carta barely employees would be the easy part. She had worked for enough knew Frances, and she was so taken aback that she was at a different bosses that she thought she know what took to be loss for words. She was shocked and embarrassed and didn't a good employer. Whether she was up to the francal side of know whether she should even discuss Tom with Frances. running a business was her worry. As it tumed out, however While Carta was still trying to recover hersett, Frances took Better Bages fourished. Not only did Cartago on to open her bageland let three smaller branches of Better Bagels, but her bekery also Carta was still concemed and upset when she saw Tom made daily wholesale deliveries to dozens of coffee shops and the next day. Perhaps he had been thinner and looked tired restaurants around the city. No, the business was prospering more often the last few months, Carta thought to herself. But It was just that the personnel issues turned out to be more of she couldn't be sure, and Tom seemed to be his usual upbeat ficult than she had ever expected. Take this week for sample set Cara wanted to discuss Frances's visit with Tom, but On Tuesday, Carla was in the main bagel shop when she couldn't bring herself to mention She had always liked around noon Tom Waters's ex-wife, Frances, came in. Tom Tom, but act she thought he's my employee, not my oversaw a lot of the cany-morning boking at that shop and friend. And his business. I were an employee, I wouldn't like most of Carla's employees put in his share of time work want my boss asking me about my health ing the sales counter. He was a good worker, and Carta had Later, however, she began to wonder if I wasn't her busi- been considering promoting him next month to manager of ness ater at She overheard some customers saying that one of the branch shops. Alter ordering a bagel, Prances people were staying away from the local Denn's franchise took Carta aside. She beat around the bush for a few minutes because one of its cooks was reported to have ADS. The before she got to her point, because she was there to t rumor was that some of his fellow employees had even move higher in the business either with Carta or with another employer. But he kept his condition to himself, hiding his symptoms and covering up occasional absences and trips to the doctor, because he was worried that customers and colleagues would perceive him differently. He didn't want looks of pity if he stumbled or constant questions about how he was feeling. circulated a petition saying that the cook should go, but a local AIDS support group had intervened, threatening legal action. So the cook was staying, but the customers weren't Carta knew something about ADS and thought some of what her customers were saying was bigoted and all informed. She was pretty sure that you couldn't transmit HIV through foodincluding begel-preparation, but she thought that maybe she should double-check her information. But what was really beginning to worry her were the business impli- cations. She didn't want a Denny's-ike situation at Better Bagels, but in her customers' comments she could see the possibility of something like that happening once the word got out about Tom, especially if she made him a manager. Carla was running a business, and even it her customers! fears might be irrational or exaggerated, she couldn't force them to visit her shops or eat her bagels. Carla knew it was illegal to fire Tom for having AIDS, and In any case that's not the kind of person she was. But she couldn't afford to skirt the whole problem, she realized, as some large companies do, by simply sending the employee home at full pay, Doing that deprives the employee of mean- ingful work, to be sure, but it removes any difficulties in the workplace, and the employee has no legal grounds for complaint if he or she is left on the payroll. And then, of course, there was always the question of Tom's future work performance. Putting the question of promotion aside, if he really was il, as Frances had said, his work performance would probably decline, she thought. Shouldn't she begin developing some plan for dealing with that? DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What are the moral issues in this case? What ideals, obligations, and consequences must Caria Lombard consider? What rights, if any, are at stake? Wilt it make a difference whether Carla adopts a Kantian approach or a utilitarian approach to this situation? 2. Would it be wrong of Carla to ask Tom Walters about his health? Why or why not? Defend your answer by appeal to moral principle 3. Suppose Tom had Aids. What should Carla do? is an employee's HIV status a job-related issue? In par- ticular, is it a factor Carta should consider in deciding whether to promote Tom? What part, if any, should the attitudes of Tom's coworkers play in Carla's decision? 4. How should companies address the problem of public fear and prejudice when employees with AIDS have direct contact with customers? 5. Should companies develop programs or policies that deal specifically with AIDS? If so, what characteris- tics should they have? Or should they deal with the problem only on a case-by-case basis? Should large corporations develop AIDS-awareness programs? Or should AIDS be treated no differently than any other disease? 6. Does Tom have a moral obligation to disclose his medical condition to Carlaand, If so, at what point? Suppose a job applicant has a chronic, potentially debilitating medical condition. Should he or she reveal that fact before being hired? Would it be wrong not to mention the disease if the interviewer inquires about the applicant's health? Update Frances was misinformed. Tom didn't have AIDS. He had developed multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. It's not fatal, but the course of the disease is unpredictable. Attacks can occur at any time and then fade away. A person can feel fine one day, only to have an attack the next day that causes blurred vision, slurred speech, numbness, or even blindness and paralysis. Tom was never worried about losing his job, and he was pretty sure he could continue to perform well at it, maybe even