Professional Custom Accounting: Can an employer require that only females serve female customers and only males serve male customers?

Professional Custom Accounting: Can an employer require that only females serve female customers and only males serve male customers?

1. What must a person who is claiming they were harassed in the workplace allege in order to first state a case with the EEOC for each of the following types of harassment:

I. Sexual harassment – quid pro quo

II. Sexual harassment – hostile environment

III. Religious harassment

IV. Racial harassment

2. Explain the difference between sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and sexual orientation discrimination, as those terms are used legally.

3. How does GINA protect a person whose mother died of breast cancer from employment discrimination?

4. Provide one example of a behavior that could be found to be both a hostile environment and quid pro quo forms of sexual harassment at the same time. Explain how a person could argue that this behavior at work was illegal.

5. Give the main legal reason why every company should have a valid written policy against all forms of harassment (besides the fact it is the “right” thing to do.)

6. Can an employer require that only females serve female customers and only males serve male customers? Explain your answer using legal terms.