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Have you ever caught an employee asleep on the job? How about more than once? This case involves a lawsuit brought by a former employee who had a myriad of health problems and who had a recurring problem with sleeping on the job. If you stay awake and alert as you read on, you might just find out why the court rejected her claims like mere daydreams.
The Comanche Power Plant had a history of hiring mainly men for entry level positions. Therefore, when it chose not to hire one of its few female applicants it was, perhaps, not unexpected that a Title VII gender discrimination complaint loomed on the horizon. Thankfully, the power plant had strict and uniformly enforced gender-neutral hiring procedures that made it difficult for such a complaint to stick. Thus, the power plant’s hiring procedures provide a good example of what industries/businesses can do to stay on the right side of Title VII.