Employment Agencies Beware! Discrimination Laws Apply To You, Too
According to this press release from the New York State Attorney General's Office, domestic employment agencies have had problems with discrimination. In specific,
the press release names eight employment agencies based in New York City that have agreed to stop screening candidates for domestic positions based on ethnicity.
The press release notes that:
the agencies routinely solicited racial preferences from the prospective employers and then, based on that information, refused to refer people for certain jobs. Some of the agencies openly noted "No Blacks," "No Islanders" and "Prefers Europeans" in their internal records, which were then used to restrict eligibility for certain jobs.Looks like discrimination still occurs in some places!
Read here for more details.
posted by Michael @ 6/07/2005 09:00:00 AM 
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I never doubted that discrimination still occurs. This shows that much of it occurs where it's least likely to be successfully challenged -- at the lower rungs of the economic ladder, and in hiring, not firing.
The dumb agency customers must have thought they were insulated because they weren't the employers. (Duh -- ever heard of "joint employer"?)
The dumb agencies must have thought customer preference was a defense? (It's not)
Notice, too, in the original press release, that the evidence was gathered using undercover methods -- enforcement staffers "posing as prospective employers or job applicants." (Kind of like the "secret shoppers" we feared when I worked at McDonalds eons ago . . .)
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