Assigning Cleaning Duties Not an Adverse Employment Action

A recent decision from the Middle District of Tennessee sheds light on the meaning of “adverse action” in the context of discrimination cases. See Pope v. General Dynamics Information Technologies, Inc., 2010 WL 1727850 (M.D. Tenn. Apr. 27, 2010). The plaintiff, Marie Pope, sued her former employer under the Tennessee Human Rights Act for discrimination based on, among other things, disparate treatment. Pope claimed the employer discriminated against her by assigning her cleaning duties for a year, at the exclusion of Pope’s male co-workers. The employer admitted that its warehouse supervisor assigned Pope the duties, and told her, “you are a female and you are good at it.” However, the employer claimed Pope had asked for the duties.

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