Business Law and Corporate Ethics

Harassment at Work

Marwan works for Studio Five Theme Park as a character actor in a pirate costume even though he doesn't have an employment contract. Marwan has seniority with the company despite having a prosthetic leg that no one knows about.

Marwan uses his character to get away with grabbing the female guest's behind. It wasn't until a new female employee reported him for grabbing her breast that Marwan was fired from his job. Marwan then claims that he was fired because of his disability.

For this assignment, we will take a look at how Marwan's behavior is inappropriate in the eyes of the law and discuss the civil rights act. Will look into different types of sexual harassment and employment. We will imagine different legal scenario pertaining to Marwan's case. This will be a learning process in order to help prevent this kind of conduct from happening again at Studio Five Theme Park.

The Civil Rights Act  

The civil rights laws that prohibit Marwan's contact with his fellow coworkers is under title VII of the civil rights act, 1964. This law protects employees against discrimination at the workplace. The slop ties to any company that has more than 15 employees within its ranks. Equal employment opportunity is the commission under the civil rights act that are brought up in harassment cases (Argosy, 2015).

 The civil rights act prohibits discrimination or against race, gender, caste, and origin of employees and applications. The Civil Rights Act also covers harassment of employees, applications, and guests. In layman's term, the civil rights act prohibits any actions that would create a hostile work environment.

Marwan violated the Civil Rights Act when he placed his hands on a female guests' behind when posing for pictures. The laws do apply to the park guests. Marwan also violated the Civil Rights Act when you grab the breast of one of his fellow female actor that was recently hired.

Sexual Harassment

When it comes to sexual harassment, there are two kinds. Quid pro quo and hostile environment. Quid pro quo is Latin for this for that. It's kind of sexual harassment in the workplace can be a trade or an ultimatum that is sexual in nature. This is an old cliché, sleep with me if you want the job. Marwan was guilty of this when he told his fellow female actor that he could get her fired if she did not go on a date with him (Argosy, 2015).

Marwan also violated the Civil Rights Act by grabbing her breast. In doing so, He committed sexual harassment by creating a hostile work environment for her. A hostile work environment is created by offensive sexual comments and advances or physical contact of a sexual nature such as having your breasts grabbed.

Legal Employment

The legal nature of Marwan's employment is that he is an employee of Studio Five Theme Park according to employment and labor law. Even though Marwan did not have an employment contract with Studio Five Theme Park, there is still an employer-employee relationship because Marwan has been working for Studio Five Theme Park. At some point the agreement was made between Marwan and Studio Five Theme Park that Marwan would work as a character actor and received training to be the new swash-buckling Pirate. It was at this point the employer-employee relationship was established.