Supreme Court Case Study: Crawford V. Metropolitan Government Of Nashville

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The workplace environment is made up of many levels of employees who engage and
interact on a daily basis. This interaction creates an energy that circulates throughout the different departments and formulates a tone. Of all the departments that co-exist in a workplace environment, the human resource department has the most important job of overseeing administrative tasks and benefits as well as employee relations such as enforcing the rules that make up the inner workings of the employment structure. When this structure is corrupt or controlled by members ruled by bias, power and convenience, many problems can arise. The Supreme Court case Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville serves as a learning tool on what concepts are acceptable and correct under the law when conducting workplace investigations revolving around discrimination and harassment. Although cooperation in workplace investigations is encouraged, fear of retaliation in the form of termination stops employees from being vocal about discrimination and harassment due to corrupt management and human resource practices, …show more content…

According to the Oklahoma City University Law review (2009), “The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee…began investigating the conduct of employee Gene Hughes…following a complaint of sexual harassment by another employee” (p 3) which was not Vicky Crawford. Due to the fact that no one filed a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the investigation was picked up by the district’s human resource department. Further examination was conducted through a “…series of interviews with nine employees” (Law Review, 2009, p 3) with Ms. Crawford being one of the nine individuals. During the review of these allegations of sexual harassment, the employees were asked questions surrounding the accusations against

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