Situation A
According to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, an employee is granted up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period for the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth (dol.gov ).

According to the given, the employee in question took 11 weeks away from his job which was held for him at the same pay rate as when he left. According to the FMLA, the company is under no obligation to give him any money for the 11 weeks in which he did not work. There has been no legal discrimination or violation of law in this situation.

Situation B
According to the given, the only reason that the employee in question was denied a promotion was because of his age. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects older workers age 40 and above; the disgruntled employee in the given was age 68, making him eligible for protected status under the law. The given lists the favored employee’s age as 32, this information is irrelevant given that he clearly was under-performing the elder employee. Even if both employees are above the age of 40, it is still illegal to deny promotion or other favor to the older employee solely based on age. In this situation, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 has been violated.

Situation C
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 states the employers are required to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act does allow an exception if the employer feels that needed accommodations would be an undue hardship. The ADA defines undue hardship as: “significant difficulty or expense incurred by a covered entity” (ada.gov). In the given, the accommodation needed would involve moving two elevator keypads down by four inches each. In a company that has a seven floor building as its headquarters; it is not unreasonable to assume that the company employs over 15 people and has enough capital to make the necessary changes to its elevators without a strain on its finances. Given that the supposed financial hardship was the reason given to the applicant for refusing to give her a job with the company (and not a lack of qualifications), the company has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Works Cited
“Wage and Hour Division.” http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/ .Np, nd, June 20, 2015.

“Introduction to the Americans with Disabilities Act.” http://www.ada.gov/ada_intro.htm. Np, nd. June 20, 2015