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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

6 Steps to Conducting Bias-Free Interviews

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 4/22/2024

Bias: A tendency to favor or oppose, often based on personal beliefs/preferences. Are your interviews filled with bias? It could stop your company from getting the quality hires it needs if they are. Conducting bias-free...more

AI, AI, Uh-Oh! Can Artificial Intelligence Programs Put You at Risk for Discrimination Lawsuits?

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/26/2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the best way to save time and make fair decisions — right? Not so fast. As AI is more common in our day-to-day lives, we have seen it make mistakes and replicate human shortcomings. For many it...more

Limit Your Pre-Employment Inquiries to Job-Related Questions

Foley & Lardner LLP on 10/6/2016

As most employers know, it is unlawful to ask an employment or promotion candidate questions which reflect bias based on race, color, age, gender, religion, or any other protected status. For example, a candidate cannot be...more

That is SO last week - July 2015 #2

Zelle LLP on 7/14/2015

Last week, The New York Times’ The Upshot blog covered a topic that has been one of our top concerns for a while: how big data can discriminate. The post followed a Carnegie Mellon University study that reported, among many...more

Supreme Court Holds That Employers Do Not Need Actual Knowledge of an Applicant’s Need for a Religious Accommodation Before They...

Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits... on 6/15/2015

The Supreme Court recently held that job applicants may hold their potential employer liable for intentional discrimination under Title VII if the applicant can show that his or her need for an accommodation was a motivating...more

A Question To Be Answered By The Supreme Court: Should You Discuss The Obvious At Job Interviews?

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 10/15/2014

Sometime next year the United States Supreme Court will decide whether a job interviewer had an obligation to inform an applicant that the interviewer has noticed that the applicant is wearing a headscarf. Put another way, on...more

Deja Vu

FordHarrison on 3/22/2013

Litigation Value: Nothing for Pam, but I’m sure the Philly real estate employees have plenty of gripes....more

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