Cynthia Ribando v. United Airlines, Inc.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

In response to concern with sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, many companies, including defendant United Airlines, established procedures for reporting, investigating and resolving claims of gender-based misbehavior. One such complaint was lodged against Cynthia Ribando, who now contends that those very procedures instituted to combat harassment constituted gender-based harassment. We are asked today to decide whether a worker who is subjected to routine interrogation and mild counseling has suffered an adverse employment action sufficient to invoke…