Instructional Objectives for this activity:

Summarize employment, labor, and anti-discrimination law.

Sam works as a driver for Toxic Games Warehouse, a wholesale distributor and online retailer of video games and accessories. Over a ten-year period, Sam repeatedly applies for and is denied a promotion to the position of dispatcher. Sam meets the requirements for the job, which are a years driving experience and a specific license.

After one interview, Sam overhears the interviewer tell a co-worker that Sam, who is white, didn’t get the job because whites are lazy. Is this employment discrimination? Explain.

These individual works should each include the following:

• An in-depth submission that should be free of spelling and grammar errors.
• An essay containing a minimum of 200 words.
• You will be assessed on the rationale you use in addressing the questions/issue posted, and how well you justify your argument regarding this issue.
• Your response must be thought provoking, have well developed ideas and/or opinions, and should reference any supporting material from the text, lecture or other sources you have used to complete the assignment.