Judicial mandates for affirmative action
Subtitle: NCSL's National Program Center Guidebook for public employers
By: Prepared by Barry S. Bader
Publisher: National Civil Service League
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Discrimination in employment; Law and legislation; Minorities; Employment
Description: A landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1971 established that unintentional discrimination is just as unlawful as blatant bias, that good intent is no defense for discrimination. That case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., announced to all employers covered by Title VII that, regardless of intent, any employment practice which has the effect of discriminating against persons on the basis of race, sex, religion or national origin is unlawful, unless the employer shows it to be job-related and an accurate indicator of what it seeks to measure. The Griggs case is the subject of three articles in Judicial Mandates. Many of the other cases discussed in these pages apply the principles of Griggs. These cases were selected, after extensive study by the National Program Center for Public Personnel Management (NPC), because they appear to represent the trend of court interpretations of how Title VII affects public employment systems.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daniel Price; title: Part I. The meaning of Griggs v. Duke Power Co.; title: Part II. Cases on racial discrimination; title: Part III. Cases on sex discrimination.