When the same person does the hiring and firing, can there really be any discrimination?
The Employer Handbook
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Image Credit: Pixabay.com ([link]. Consider this example: A supervisor hires someone who is over 40 years of age. Not long after, the same supervisor fires that same employee. What are the odds that age motivated the termination of employment? (Remember, that the supervisor voluntarily hired the same over-40 employee too.). This is called the same-actor inference and, when it applies, the plaintiff has a hecka-high (sorry, about the legal jargon) burden to overcome to demonstrate that his/her pr
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