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Introduction
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Assume you are an HR Consultant that has been hired to help Comfort Assisted Living with a recent
grievance that was filed by one of its employees. You will not be working on the legal aspects of the
case, but you will help the company determine if the employee's job classification is correct.
Comfort Assisted Living has an HR Department but would like to obtain an outside opinion.
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The employee, Gregory Williams, is currently working as a Senior HR Specialist for Comfort Assisted
Living. His current job duties are provided in the Supplemental Information document posted in our
classroom. Mr. Williams has been in the position for 5 years and had consistently received
"outstanding" ratings on his performance evaluations until this year when he received a "meets
expectations" rating. A month ago, he saw a job announcement that Comfort Assisted Living placed
on Monster. com for a Deputy VP of HR. Mr. Williams was angered by the job announcement
because he felt he was already performing the duties ated in the announcement. When he asked
his supervisor about the job, he was told that the Deputy position was a new one that was being
created and that he would have to apply for the job just like everyone else. Mr. Williams disagreed
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