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ACME Inc. Case Study: Discrimination on the Basis of Age

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ACME Inc. gave generous vacation benefits to its employees.  New employees received three weeks of paid leave, and employees with over 25 years seniority received six weeks of paid leave.  With the economic downturn, ACME decided to give all employees only three weeks paid leave a year, to boost worker productivity.  The employees with over 25 years seniority (all over 40 years old) sued ACME under a disparate impact claim, claiming that the policy deprived them of a benefit, while it did not deprive younger workers of that same benefit.

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Company’s Ethical Responsibilities Case Study

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You are a Public Relations Department employee of Celgene Corp., and you have been asked by the company to address the public outcry regarding the current price of its Thalidomide pill. You must prepare a two-to-three-page report in which you discuss what you believe are the company’s ethical responsibilities in this case. You must address in your discussions whether you believe the company is abiding by its ethical responsibilities and whether the main concern should be the public benefit or the financial health of the company.

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Justice & Injustice in the Relationship Between the Characters of “A Doll’s House.”

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Read Act III (pages 790-805) of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Apply as many of the literary terms such as point of view, characters, setting, onto the play to better comprehend and write about it, and then conduct further literary analysis by expressing your opinion regarding the justice and injustice in the relationship between the main characters of “A Doll’s House.”

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