Human Resources Task One 1

Human Resources Task One

Human Resources Task One
Rekeesha L. Duncan
Western Governors University

Human Resources Task One 2 A. Constructive Discharge: The candidate provides a logical explanation, with sufficient support, of how constructive discharge as a legal concept is relevant to the scenario.
Constructive discharge also known as constructive dismissal transpires when an organizations employees resigns because the organization or employer’s actions become increasingly unbearable, atrocious, or has made the employees experience with the organization so trying that the employee has no other choice but to resign and leave the organization. Under the law this type of resignation is not truly voluntary so it is viewed as a termination. The given scenario is relevant to the legal concept of constructive discharge because it paints the picture of an ex-employee who resigned due to a new company policy change that would require employees to work on a religious holy day. The new policy requires all shift-work employees to work 12-hour shifts with four days at work and then four days off. The four required work days can occur on any day of the week, Monday through Sunday.
B. Title VII: The candidate provides a logical discussion, with sufficient detail, of a protected category under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that is relevant to the scenario. The law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the sole foundation of the person’s particular race, their color, their preference on religion, their national origin, or whether they are male or female. The protected category “Duty to Accommodate an Employees Religion”, under the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is actually relevant to the given scenario. The protected category discusses that an