How would you likely answer the following specific questions asked by the Administrative Hearing Judge?

a. Is there a distributed list of “unacceptable” reasons for calling in sick? Who decides what is “unacceptable”?

b. Have, in the past six months, all employees who followed the hotel’s policy of calling in sick four hours before their shift ultimately been documented as “resigned” from their job?

c. Assuming the answer to the above question is “no,” what was the hotel’s basis for treating Donna differently from: Males in the hotel Those of a different ethnic background (the hearing officer explains that this is asked simply to ensure that the hotel is not guilty of a civil rights violation)