Business Law - Employment Law - Sexual Harassmentr

Business Law - Employment Law - Sexual Harassment The Case of Julie McCoy versus Merrill Stubbell Name: Course title: Instructor: Institution: Date Due: Business Law - Employment Law - Sexual Harassment The Case of Julie McCoy Verses Merrill Stubbell Background of the situation Julie McCoy who is a worker at We Love Boats (WLB) claims to have encountered sexual advances from her supervisor Merrill Stubbell while on night shift duties. In addition to that, he had requested her to sleep with him. These advances were met while everybody in the nightshift team was watching. Mc Coy had informed Stubbell that she did not appreciate the first comment and that it greatly unnerved her. She told him that it made it difficult for her to look her co-workers in the eye. However, that did not stop him from making the second comment. McCoy filed a Title VII sex harassment suit against WLB alleging that she had been the subject of sexual harassment. We Love Boats (WLB) has asked the court to dismiss the case since McCoy has failed to produce show a “prima facie” case, what do you think the court should do. I think it would be better if I started out by defining what the term "prima facie case" entails; this term in legal perspective means that the facts surrounding the circumstances that are necessary for a court case to be justified. It is considered important for an employee if filing a sexual suit to consider having “a prima facie” that is minimum set of facts (Herlitz, 1994). For the case of McCoy, the act of the supervisor indeed constitutes sexual harassment under title V11 of the federal laws of US (42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a) (1). This is because sexual harassment constitutes any verbal expression, touching, unwelcome sexual advances and communication that is sexual in nature which is not warranted by the person directed at (29 C.F.R. 1604.11). It can cal also be sexually discriminatory expressions. All these were allegedly done by Mr. Merrill Stubbell, the supervi...