Other Employment Discrimination Related Sites
National Origin Working Group website The website describes the complaint procedure; the Civil Rights Division's activities in this area and contains the brochure "Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination" in eleven languages U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
U.S. Department of Labor's Office
of Federal Contract Compliance Programs which enforces Executive Order
11246 and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act
U.S. State and
Local Gateway provides links by topic to federal, state, and local web
sites
Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection
Procedures When Congress adopted the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of
the problems was the effect of written preemployment tests on equal employment
opportunity. Congress sought to strike a balance which would proscribe discrimination
but permit the use of tests in selection procedures. In 1966, the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission adopted guidelines to advise employers what the law
required. Differences between the EEOC and Justice, Labor and the Civil Service
Commission produced two different sets of guidelines. The Federal government
had a need for a uniform set of principles on the question of the use of tests
and other selection procedures. In 1978, The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Department of Labor, and the
Department of Justice jointly adopted uniform
guidelines to meet that need, and to apply the same principles to the
Federal Government as are applied to other employers. The guidelines incorporate
a single set of principles which are designed to assist employers, labor organizations,
employment agencies, and licensing and certification boards to comply with
requirements of Federal law prohibiting employment practices which discriminate
on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. They are designed
to provide a framework for determining the proper use of tests and other selection
procedures. See also, Questions
and Answers on the Uniform Guidelines on Employment Selection Procedures.
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