Ch3-1 HRM Experiential Assignment PART ONE: Employment Discrimination Case Presentation

The eeoc.gov website is a good one to become familiar with as a HR professional/manager/employee. Go to that website and browse it to see the vast quantity of information contained in it, including information on discrimination - Use the eeoc.gov website to locate an employment discrimination case that is no more than 2 years old. Please don't just take the first one - look for one of interest to you. You'll see a NewsFeed off the home page that you can click on and scroll through. You can also enter in your email address if you'd like to receive EEOC updates - a good thing for any HR professional or manager to do.

Prepare a no more than 4 slide presentation highlighting the key details of the case as noted below. This should not be a direct copy of content from the case - put the case information into a summary you are writing. Your presentation must include the following - please do use bullets and not huge paragraphs of complete sentences. Please do not use cutesy graphics or clip art. Your intended audience are the management and employee teams at your workplace as you use this presentation to demonstrate an example of workplace discrimination.

• Slide 1 - Plaintiff v Defendant names, including the URL of the website where the case was found at the bottom of the first slide - (By "Plaintiff v. Defendant" I mean you need to include the actual individual names.) Example: Griggs v. Duke Power. Your URL will look something like eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom. This slide is your cover/title slide and your Works Cited slide. Your name and assignment information should not be included on this slide.
• Slide 2 - Brief summary of the details of the claimed discrimination, including dates involved - this should not be complete sentences but rather sentence fragments that enable your presentation reader to follow the key issues of the discriminatory action. Include what happened, who was involved, when did it happen, etc. - But again, you should never be using a 12 or 10-point font in a PowerPoint presentation so if you are doing that, then rework the information you are putting on the slide to be meaningful but not exhaustive. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THIS INFORMATION - You need to be able to discuss what happened and tell the story of why this is discrimination - what happened, why is it discrimination, etc.
• Slide 3 - Law/Ruling impacted by the discriminatory action - which employment law is involved? This might be Title VII, or the ADEA, or others mentioned in your chapter 3 readings. You need to apply the discrimination case to a law that was violated or not in compliance in the employment situation. Which law was broken - why is the action discriminatory
• Slide 4 - Details of the settlement/consent decree/status of court case today - you may find the details censored and therefore be unable to report out the financial details - and you may find the case is still active in the courts as these cases tend to take a lengthy period of time to resolve. You may also find the EEOC required the company to pay a fine, hang posters, allow an EEOC auditor to be on the company site for a period of two or more years, require training, etc.

Do NOT use complete sentences in this PPT presentation. Summary statements should be used - you should NOT copy the exact details out of the case. Take the information you have and summarize the key information as noted above. I'd want you to be preparing this presentation as if you were standing up in front of the class and telling us about a sample employment discrimination case. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the case setting, issues, actions, etc. so that you come across as if you understand what happened as opposed to just copying in the facts and therefore would be able to talk to us about why these actions were discriminatory. Ask yourself if you can stand up in front of an audience and talk about the discrimination case you chose.