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You are an HR and have to fire or keep employees, identify and discuss all of the applicable employee laws and how they apply to THIS employee situation. Give reasons for each termination or option to keep. If fire what if any severance is to be offered and what risks might be inherent with each particular employee in terms of post termination litigation.

32-year-old White male. overall track record with the company is average. His productivity is average. He has been solely responsible for much of the quality programming which took place in the program being abandoned. He holds no advanced degree but his experience in the marines has given him practice experience that goes beyond the abandoned programs. However, he seems to have an absenteeism problem, missing 17 days in the last two months. he has recently let you know that he has a neurological disease and he feels like others in the company have been treating him differently since he became ill.

28-year-old African American female. She is a very dynamic salesperson. Although most of the new division's sales came from her hard work, she is generally perceived to be a ladder climber and puller and out only for herself. She is not perceived to be a team player although it is widely recognized that she is smart and talented. She is very active in the local chapter of a civil rights group and, on several occasions in the past, has complained on behalf of other employees when she believed they were not being treated fairly. She has missed two months work in the last 12 months.