Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Chicago Hospitals

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• noting that while constructive discharge usually results because of continued discriminatory harassment, it can also be demonstrated by other means, including blatant cues that the employee is no longer wanted and will be fired if the employee doesn’t resign first
• explaining that “[c]onstructive discharge, like actual discharge, is a materially adverse employment action”
• finding constructive discharge when, among other signs of imminent termination, employee arrived at work to find her belongings packed and her office used for storage
• finding constructive discharge where plaintiff arrived to work to find her belongings packed and her office used for storage
• finding plaintiff had met burden of showing constructive discharge where plaintiff returned to work to find her belongings packed and her office converted to storage
• relying on other facts such as the use of the employee’s office for storage, hostility toward the employee, and the packing of the employee’s belongings by her employer

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