Case Study Six

Moving Up (Cont’d)

So, Marissa reported the incident to management and the flirtatious messages immediately stopped. In fact, her supervisor has been avoiding her altogether, which is making it difficult to get her job done. Then suddenly, her supervisor told her that she’d be transferred to another department that will require her to work a different shift.

What Marissa is experiencing could be best described as:

The correct answer is Retaliation for reporting harassment

The correct answer is Retaliation for reporting harassment

While we don’t know the full details as to why Marissa is being transferred, the sudden reassignment and the supervisor’s conduct (ignoring her and making work difficult) could be construed as retaliation for reporting harassment, which is illegal and should be reported to HR so that they can investigate the matter immediately.