Shewin Case

PA402 involution Law Unit 3 The Employment birth Shewin Memorandum Your Course Project Read About the Shewin Memorandum throughout the course, you will work on the Shewin Memorandum. Your first step is to become acquaint with Ms. Shewin and the fact pattern. Ima Shewin is a 45-year-old African-American woman with advanced degrees in face and journalism from the University of Chicago. She has been employed by The Blabber, a newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, for 10 geezerhood.She started as an entrylevel researcher. Two age later, she was promoted to a junior-level reporter position, and two years after that, to a superior-level reporter position. She has now been a senior-level reporter for the operate six years. During the first eight years of her employment, Shewin reported to George Doright. Two years ago, The Blabber reorganized, and Doright was moved to another division in the order. Since then, Shewin has reported to Arthur index, The Blabbers senior editor.Following the reorganization, two editors have retired. Although Shewin applied for these positions, they were not offered to her. In fact, she was altogether invited to reference for one of the positions, although she believes she met the qualifications for both. Last month, she applied for a junior-editor position she has been after for several(prenominal) years now. Based upon the qualifications that were identified in the jobs classified ad, she felt she was a shoo-in. She applied and was interviewed. The interview with Mr. king did not go as well as she had hoped. The interview took place over lunch in a restaurant. baron started out the conversation by engaging in seemingly benign social banter, but Shewin was uncomfortable with his personal questions about her relationship with her boyfriend. A few weeks after the interview, the company announced that it was hiring Gene Whiz, someone from after-school(prenominal) the company. Whiz is 26 years old and recently earned a masters degree in journalism from the University of Chicago.He has worked as a reporter for a small local newspaper. Shewin believes a number of factors may have been held against her. For example, only three women are in the upper levels of management, and all were promoted prior to the reorganization. King was not involved in the promotion decisions for any of the three women. King has a reputation for making sexist comments, which several women in the company find offensive, as do a number of men. For example, he exposit one pregnant reporter as barefoot and pregnant. He has besides asked Shewin out to discuss business, invitations that she has declined. She feels that rejecting him may have something to do with her not acquiring the job. Another possible factor is that there are only basketball team African-American senior managers in the company. Shewin has heard through the rumor milling machinery that Whiz is part AfricanAmerican. Also, prior to Mr. Dorights transfer, Shewin filed a c omplaint against some of her masculine colleagues.Apparently the men whose cubicles were surrounding Shewins area had a habit of discussing their weekend dates in graphic detail on Monday mornings. Although they did not make these comments directly to Shewin, the conversations PA402 Employment Law Unit 3 The Employment Relationship Shewin Memorandum were preferably loud and she overheard them regularly. After several months of hoping they would stop, Shewin brought this matter to Mr. Doright, who sternly told the employees to stop such(prenominal) behavior.However, since Arthur King became the senior manager, her coworkers have reverted to their old behavior, and King has taken no action against them, despite Shewins repeated complaints to him. In fact, Shewin has observed King laughing at the conversations as he walked by. He did not, however, participate in the conversations. Finally, Shewin is more than than 40 years old and has concerns that she may be getting passed over b ecause of her age. A friend of hers overheard King talking to another senior manager, speculating as to when Shewin would finally retire.