Opinion ID: 404154
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: selection procedures

Text: 140 3. The City shall continue to develop and reassess its present affirmative recruitment program to inform minorities of job opportunities with the Memphis Fire Department. In filling vacancies in the entry level position, the City shall continue to emphasize recruitment from among qualified members of the affected class, as provided in the Consent Decree in CA-74-286. 141 4. The City may maintain their current or similar education standards and selection procedure for firefighters, provided, however, that these standards and procedures do not have an adverse impact on members of the affected class as measured by compliance with the interim hiring goal set out in paragraph 7 below. If such impact is shown, the City must demonstrate the job relatedness of the particular education standard or selection procedure. 142 5. The City may continue to use on a pass-fail basis (or other grading system authorized by the U. S. Department of Justice provided that no adverse racial impact is present) written promotional examinations for the Fire Department. However, the City shall evaluate these examinations and promotional testing procedures to insure that the use of these examinations will not have an adverse impact on black applicants. The parties agree that adverse impact will be shown if the adverse differential in the failure rate for blacks is in excess of five (5) percent. The City shall maintain records of the results of all such examinations sufficient to determine the impact on black applicants and shall provide this information to plaintiffs' attorney at the same time as the information is submitted to the United States Department of Justice in accordance with the Consent Decree in CA-74-286. 143 The City also agrees that it will administer promotional examinations on a regular basis, but in any event, at least every two years. The City shall notify plaintiffs' counsel of plans to administer promotional examinations as soon as practicable after the decision has been made on such plans.