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6 Best Accessible Job Description Tools to Build Your Team

Ongig

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits employment discrimination against disabled people. Legally and ethically, it is unjust to exclude disabled folks from the recruiting process by using inaccessible technology or otherwise discriminating against them. Accessibility is the law.

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3 ATSs That Make it Easy to Be an Equal Opportunity Employer

Capterra

However, when you consider that the average hiring discrimination suit costs $125,000, SmartRecruiters’ price tag starts to seem more reasonable. In addition to having all the features Capterra’s Software Lab tracked, Workable has quite a few other features that will save your recruiting team time. SmartRecruiters.

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Employers Left in Wellness-Plan Limbo

HR Daily Advisor

Employers currently using wellness programs are likely already aware of the privacy and discrimination laws and regulations restricting their use. Although employers accepted and, for the most part, appreciated the regulations for their clarity and workability, the disability rights community disagreed. HIPAA and Wellness Plans.

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AI job descriptions: How to write them faster and avoid bias

Business Management Daily

If you’re looking for a basic free option, check out the AI-powered free job description generators from Workable , Grammarly , and GoHire. The Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes extensive guidelines to determine whether a job qualifies as exempt from overtime pay.

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Responding to an EEOC charge: 5 common employer mistakes

Workable

Broadly, the legislation has been designed to prevent discrimination against employees or job candidates according to protected characteristics (such as race, gender and age). Despite increased awareness of EEO guidelines , the number of official complaints has remained steady for the last two decades at around 90,000 per year.

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Pre-employment testing: pros and cons

Workable

One example is a 2012 discrimination case where a company had to pay $550,000 in back wages to minority workers it rejected through a pre-employment test. Some personality and physical ability tests can break anti-discrimination laws, if they’re trying to ‘diagnose’ a mental or physical condition that’s unrelated to the job.

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Diversity and inclusion training: How to apply it in the workplace

Workable

First and foremost, to be inclusive, each of us has to understand in depth what diversity means, both cognitively – i.e. what it is – and emotionally – i.e. how does a person feel when discriminated against. Get familiar with facts and stats: Anti-discrimination laws , and survey findings around D&I. Let the lesson begin.