Federal contractors are required to maintain equitable and fair hiring practices.
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Some small businesses worry that fair-hiring laws will expose them to litigation.
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To be effective, fair hiring policies must do more than ban the box.
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Fair hiring not only makes good business sense, it creates a more diverse, engaged, driven, and loyal workforce.
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"One side wants to eject all black people from America, the other wants fair hiring," said Emily Gorcenski, a Charlottesville activist.
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Since then more than 30 states and the federal government have enacted varying fair-hiring practices through legislation and executive orders.
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California recently passed a fair hiring resolution to encourage the development and use of algorithm-based technologies in job hiring decisions.
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This includes instituting company policies that guarantee equal pay, paid family leave, flexible scheduling, fair hiring, and promotion and retention practices.
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They're spending more on programs to educate their workforces, build connections with educational institutions and ensure fair hiring, development and promotion practices.
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In any case, these surveys place the onus on the individual applicant when the responsibility for equitable and fair hiring lies with the recruiters claiming to be its champions.
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Congress can start the new administration off on the right foot by moving sentencing and corrections reform, second chances, and fair hiring legislation to a vote before the year's end.
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Ethical recruitment companies, like the Fair Hiring Initiative in the Philippines and FSI Worldwide, are better alternatives, helping to provide migrants and their employers with a better understanding of their rights and duties.
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Among the topics "Unsheltered" picks up and carries around for a while: health care exchanges, global warming, fair-hiring laws, Park Service budget cuts, the history of investment activism, college admissions and international trade.
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Diversity programs — which can include everything from hiring tests and performance reviews to ensure fair hiring and pay decisions as well as trainings — are designed to "preempt lawsuits," they added, instead of truly stopping prejudice.
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As other governors are already doing, they can lead by example by extending protections like fair hiring rules and paid sick days, as well as prohibiting inquiry into salary history of state office employees and state contractor employees.
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Change might have started through celebration, but it is sustained by enacting a system of fair hiring practices for people of all gender identities — which would help transform the unwelcoming culture on set for anyone who's trans or gender non-conforming.
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Elizabeth Quinlan is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan and an associate member of its Women’s and Gender Studies Program. In 2017 she received a national award for equity and justice from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) in recognition of her work supporting fair hiring practices and combating sexual violence.
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These goals included the desegregation of Birmingham's downtown stores, fair hiring practices in shops and city employment, the reopening of public parks, and the creation of a bi-racial committee to oversee the desegregation of Birmingham's public schools. Maurice Isserman & Michael Kazin, 'America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s', (Oxford, 2008), p. 90. King summarized the philosophy of the Birmingham campaign when he said: "The purpose of ... direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation".Garrow, (1986) p. 246.
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The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor (WCNYH) is a regulatory agency in Port of New York and New Jersey in the United States. The bi-state agency was founded in 1953 by a Congressional authorized compact between New York and New Jersey "for the purpose of eliminating various evils on the waterfront in the Port of New York Harbor." Under statutory mandate, the mission of the commission is to investigate, deter, combat and remedy criminal activity and influence in the port district and also ensures fair hiring and employment practices. New Jersey attempted to withdraw from the pact in 2018.
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In Congress, Green has focused on the same issues he worked on at the Houston NAACP: fair housing and fair hiring practices for the poor and minorities. After the 2012 election, Green held a press conference in Houston at which he emphasized the need for the lame duck Congress to work together to reform the national budget. He also announced a plan for infrastructure investments across the country intended to create jobs and unify the country and improve the economy. Green has supported the Federal Reserve's program of quantitative easing and claims it has led to economic recovery since the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
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Three labourers with "facks" (spades) at an Irish hiring fair. Hiring fairs, also called statute or mop fairs, were regular events in pre-modern Great Britain and Ireland where labourers were hired for fixed terms. They date from the time of Edward III, and his attempt to regulate the labour market by the Statute of Labourers in 1351 at a time of a serious national shortage of labour after the Black Death. Subsequent legislation, in particular the Statute of Apprentices of 1563, legislated for a particular day when the high constables of the shire would proclaim the stipulated rates of pay and conditions of employment for the following year.
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 which enabled a presidential committee on equal opportunity, which was soon followed by President Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11246. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 became the legal underpinning of equal opportunity in employment. Businesses and other organizations learned to comply with the rulings by specifying fair hiring and promoting practices and posting these policy notices on bulletin boards, employee handbooks and manuals as well as training sessions and films. Courts dealt with issues about equal opportunity, such as the 1989 Wards Cove decision, the Supreme Court ruled that statistical evidence by itself was insufficient to prove racial discrimination.
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The National MS Society, National Capital Chapter advocates for federal, state, and local government change for people with MS. The organization works with people with MS, their families, community organizations, and legislators to improve access to quality health care, make MS therapies more affordable, increase access to affordable, accessible housing and transportation. They work for disability rights, MS research funding, and quality choices for community-based long-term care services. Their local issues, such as building accessibility, fair hiring practices, and accessible transportation come mainly from individuals who contact the chapter directly regarding an issue or problem. The organization also advocates on a state level with policy platforms focused on Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
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