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Hiring outlook still strong despite rumors of recession

Business Management Daily

The total outlook score of +20% is the highest recorded since 2006. The agency takes the position that screening out applicants with criminal records may disproportionally harm minority applicants and amount to discrimination against applicants on the basis of race.

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Luxembourg’s Path Toward Shrinking the Gender Pay Gap Under EU Directive

Trusaic

Account for intersectional discrimination in pay practices and consider the needs of workers with disabilities. Discrimination in salary or professional advancement based on religion, conviction or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, belonging to an ethnic group, nationality or union membership is also prohibited (Article L.251-1).

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Germany’s Path Toward Decreasing the Gender Pay Gap Under the EU Directive

Trusaic

Germany’s current gender pay gap sits at 18% , which is largely unchanged since 2020, but an improvement from 23% in 2006. Account for intersectional discrimination in pay practices and consider needs of workers with disabilities. As noted above, intersectional discrimination is defined in the EU Transparency Directive.

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OFCCP Announces New AAP Requirements for Federal Contractors

Trusaic

This replaces the outdated 2006-2010 EEO tabulation currently being used. These two requirements complement another recent OFCCP pledge to leverage EEO-1 Component 2 pay data to look for pay discrimination practices. The OFCCP will also begin using the new data to evaluate organizations on the same date.

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

At the beginning of the book, the authors provided this confusing definition of adverse impact: “Adverse impact (unintentional) discrimination occurs when identical standards or procedures are applied to everyone, even though they lead to a substantial difference in employment outcomes (e.g., The adverse impact ratio is SR 1 /SR 2 =.10/.20

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Violence in the Workplace – A Growing Concern

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In contrast, the number of mass workplace shootings that were carried out by former or current employees from 2006 to February 2020 only totalled 13. This screening must be done, however, without crossing any legal lines in terms of privacy and discrimination. This works out to an average of about one per year.

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5 Examples of Racial Bias in Hiring

Ongig

The 2004 field experiment on labor market discrimination answers the question, “Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal?” ” Tip: Using “blind hiring” tools to remove names and other identifying information from resumes can help remove racial discrimination in the hiring process.