Relevant Facts The Paul Cronan case highlights some of America's prejudices and the reason why employment laws are necessary. Mr.Cronan was a long-time employee (thirteen-year tenured employee) of New England Telephone Company (NET), whose sexual preferences caused him to contact Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). As a service technician, his ailment left him missing work often to gain necessary treatment. His supervisor confronted him asking for explanation as to the missed work, and even …showed first 75 words of 2703 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2703 total…public statement at a news conference announcing the settlement, which it did not treat its employees with insensitivity but their actions seem to contradict this. They even drafted a corporate AIDS policy stating that AIDS is treated like any other illness contracted by an employee. I wonder under the circumstances if an employee with lung cancer would have suffered the same invasion of privacy, humiliation and harassment that Paul Cronan did. Pretty scary isn't it.