The
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Newsletter | ||
Employers Fined in Employment Discrimination Cases |
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Under the Commission’s new testing program in employment
for race and gender discrimination, the Commission sends out
matched sets of testers (male and female Caucasians, African-
Americans, Latinos) who apply for the same jobs with equivalent
résumés, and then analyzes if the testers were treated equally. The
Commission has conducted more than 300 tests in a one-year
period. Approximately 15% of those tests have been referred to the
Commission’s Law Enforcement Bureau for charges based upon the
indication of discriminatory hiring practices by the employers. Individuals with arrest and/or conviction records are protected from discrimination in employment under the NYC Human Rights Law. |
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