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Learning Team Reflection-Week 4-IRAC Method

531/LAW-Business Law
December 22, 2014
Linda Fried
Learning Team Reflection-Week 4-IRAC Method
Introduction
Discrimination is unfortunately, still a problem in many work places. Discrimination happens in many different ways. Disparate-treatment discrimination happens when an individual is treated differently because of their race, color, national origin, sex or religion. Disparate-impact discrimination happens when an entire class of protected people are treated differently by an employer. There is also gender discrimination, which includes pregnancy discrimination, and age discrimination, this effects people over the age of 40 (Shaping Employment Discrimination Law, n.d.). Employees that feel they are affected by discrimination can bring a lawsuit against the employee. They can recover equitable remedies, which include back pay or reinstatement or compensatory damages, when intentional discrimination can be proved. (Chessman, 2013) Age discrimination is the issue in the case of Williams v. Microsoft.
IRAC Method
Case
Nancy Williams is a 53-year-old employee of Microsoft. She has worked with Microsoft since 1996. In 2010, she began working for Microsoft Azure a subsidiary of Microsoft. She is part of the management team. She has also been on an extended leave. In 2012, Williams began working for a new boss, a man of East Indian descent. Williams says that she is having panic attacks and health issues due to what she says are a hostile work environment. Williams says that her boss ignores her during meetings, does not include her in important internal communications, does not give merit to her suggestions and has blamed her for happenings at work that were not her responsibility, while showing the male employees favoritism (Linesch, 2014).
At one point, she also approached her boss, and his supervisor about their awarding a contract to an Indian company over other companies. Both her boss and...

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