1. DEI Technologies believes in the benefits of a diverse workforce. It examines its workforce and determines that only 10% of its engineering supervisors are female. They implement an affirmative action plan for five years that increases the training and development money available to female engineers, recruit candidates from areas likely to have more qualified female engineers, and at least one of every three engineering supervisors hired must be female. Would such a plan be legal? What is critical for voluntary affirmative action programs to survive judicial scrutiny? Explain using case support.

2. Donald is denied a promotion at work and believes that his boss, Tom, discriminated against him because he's Black, as he has more experience. Tom agrees that Donald had a little more experience but said that other key factors weighed in favor of the other candidate, such as the quality of their work performance over the last few years and better education and professional development. Evaluate Donald's discrimination claim, and what would he need to show to strengthen it?.

3. Eloisa, who is Hispanic, works in the accounting department at Taxco. One day her boss, who is of Asian descent, asks her if she would mind sharing her tamale recipe. This catches Eloisa off guard, as she's never made tamales and doesn't like them. A few months later, on Eloisa's birth, her boss hangs a piata in the break room to have some fun celebrating. Eloisa hates piatas but doesn't say anything. Does her boss's actions constitute racial harassment? Explain why/why not.

1. Assume that her boss was also Hispanic; would that completely negate her claim? Explain