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Isaac recently received a notice from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) giving him official right to sue, he said...
...questions, like all those listed above, are now effectively off limits in job interviews. Personnel officials must manage to avoid sometimes sensitive subjects like race, religion, marital status and arrest records, or risk discrimination charges and perhaps endless legal battles. Since the mid-1960s, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and federal courts have so confined companies in a mass of dos and don'ts that about the only totally safe question to ask a potential employee is "Would you like a cup of coffee...
...subjects deemed unrelated to the job opening are broached and the rejected job applicant files a complaint, the burden of proving that there has been no age, sex, race other discrimination rests with the company. However valid and substantial the reasons for not hiring that individual may be, the EEOC considers the employer guilty until he is proved innocent. In a series of precedent-setting cases over the past 15 years, federal courts have severely limited the area open to a prying interrogator...
Some corporations report that the EEOC'S edicts are not all that onerous and have actually improved hiring procedures by concentrating attention on the qualifications that count. Says James Cameron, vice president of personnel for Levi Strauss in San Francisco: "If the rules have had any effect, it has been to make us better interviewers. Those questions we used to ask were really extraneous." Robert Stenberg, equal employment planning manager for Ford in Dearborn, Mich., agrees that the guidelines have "sharpened our sensitivities and helped us focus on the criteria critical to the proper selection of people...
...University is now waiting to hear from the EEOC. Diane Fraser, attorney handling the case for the University, said the EEOC is now "considering whether or not to reconsider their February determination in light of the University's reply in June, which included information that wasn't originally reviewed...