For each of the scenarios, determine if any would be considered harassment or would be creating a hostile work environment from an employment law standpoint. Be sure to cite any applicable employment laws and fully explain your rationale. Lonnie works in an office with 10 other individuals in fairly close proximity. He has a number of health issues and is very concerned about contracting COVID. Because of this, he did get vaccinated. He is aware that some of the team chose not to get vaccinated and has made it his mission to convince them to do so. He regularly asks them if they have changed their minds about the vaccine and tries to engage them in conversations about the benefits of vaccines.

For each of the scenarios, determine if any would be considered harassment or would be creating a hostile work environment from an employment law standpoint. Be sure to cite any applicable employment laws and fully explain your rationale. Lonnie works in an office with 10 other individuals in fairly close proximity. He has a number of health issues and is very concerned about contracting COVID. Because of this, he did get vaccinated. He is aware that some of the team chose not to get vaccinated and has made it his mission to convince them to do so. He regularly asks them if they have changed their minds about the vaccine and tries to engage them in conversations about the benefits of vaccines.

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter12: Diversity In Organizations

Section: Chapter Questions

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