Reference no: EM133106086

You are the chief pilot for an air charter company serving primarily an oil industry clientele. Most of your company`s flying involves transporting "roughneck" crews of oil workers to and from offshore drilling platforms and other remote and primitive drilling and exploration locations. Weather, duty time, and mechanical considerations sometimes require aircrews to stay at the work site with the workers for overnight or longer. Although you are a male and a seasoned former military aviator with considerable overseas combat experience, the language and behavior of these workers is sometimes to crass for your comfort.

1. Business is good and the company is accepting applications to hire a dozen additional pilots. Several qualified female aviators apply. You can`t imagine exposing women to these rowdy passengers and crude working conditions. You explain the situation and your concerns to each of the female applicants during their job interviews, but they are undeterred. Can you lawfully exclude them? Explain.

2. The company hires several of the women pilots to fly both helicopters and business jets. A few weeks later, one of them complains to you that when she and a male pilot landed on one of the drilling rigs and deplaned to have lunch, she was subjected to a continuous barrage of whistling and sexually suggestive remarks from a crowd of leering, ogling oil workers. She reports that the other pilot joined in the spirit of the occasion, patting her on the butt while smiling and waving at the workers. She slapped his hand away and told him in no uncertain terms that he did not have permission to touch her but he just laugh and told her to lighten up and enjoy the attention. She was afraid for her personal safety. What will you do? Why?