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Retaliation Risks After Accommodation Requests: Lessons from an ADA Case

The Employer Handbook

The court dismissed her ADA discrimination claim because she didnt show she was meeting the universitys legitimate expectations at the time of her termination. That doomed the discrimination claim. But the retaliation claim? She was verbally admonished for memory lapses related to contract work. She received a written warning.

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Anti-discrimination policy

Workable

This anti-discrimination policy template is ready to be tailored to your company’s needs and can be a starting point for setting up your employment policies. The post Anti-discrimination policy appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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How to hire more women in tech sales

Workable

At Workable, we take this to heart, especially as we build our sales team. Often times, unconsciously or otherwise, hiring managers discriminate against female sales candidates. But, Workable remains the only place I have ever worked where two women influence the company’s revenue goals. How we plan to cultivate female talent.

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Oh, hell no! Did an employer discriminate by not excusing a Christian employee from fingerprinting?

The Employer Handbook

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on religion and requires employers to reasonably accommodate an applicant’s or employee’s religious practice unless it would pose an undue hardship. When a company violates federal anti-discrimination laws this way, the EEOC will step in.

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AI recruitment: Benefits, drawbacks and best practices

Business Management Daily

Potential for bias or discrimination AI recruitment can minimize the impact of human bias. For example, in 2018, Amazon had to scrap an AI recruiting tool that was found to discriminate against female applicants. ” Even so, employment discrimination is still illegal. However, it’s important to remember something.

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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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employee says his religion prevents him from using the correct pronouns for trans or non-binary coworkers

Ask a Manager

He can privately feel however he wants, but he can’t refuse to use people’s correct pronouns at work because the law says that’s discrimination based on gender identity, which is illegal. In one court case ( Kluge v.