Employment Law Application: Employment termination of Mary

The case is related to the employment termination of Mary, the employer of XYZ business. The organization made discrimination on the basis of age with the old employers and terminated the employees over 55 years of age. Mary found this as a case of age discrimination with the old employees and this has led to termination of many employees who have served for so many years for the organization.

a. Answer the issues that were raised in the assignment.

b. Restate the issues, one by one, then explain the relevant statutory law, what court cases "control" that area of law according to your text or other source material, and what specific action you will take. Explain how the law will deal with the facts you described, and what the final outcome will be.

c. Finally, compare and contrast how the elements required to prove discrimination in your case differ from the elements required to prove discrimination, explain what has to be proved for a finding of gender discrimination, and explain how that requirement differs from proving other forms of discrimination, such as race, national origin, age or disability.

As you organize your thinking to provide a legal analysis of the case you prepared in week two, you make mental notes about what you need to include:

a. How to incorporate the concept of equity in the workplace into the legal analysis;

b. How to include the relevant anti-discrimination statues, including Title Vll, ADEA, ADA, Equal Pay Act and Civil Rights Act of 1991 as appropriate; and

c. How to compare and contrast discrimination claims based on race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age and disability.