Legal Issues and Employment LawEEOC v. Dial CorpLegal Issues and Employment LawWhat was the legal issue in this case? What did the courts decide? The legal issue in this case was the plaintiffs’ alleged sexual discrimination of both disparate treatment and adverse impact under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Dial Corporation.  The judgement was in favor of the plaintiffs on both claims. Dial’s use of a pre-employment strength test was unlawful and had a different impact on the female applicantsWhat is the evidence that use of the strength test disadvantaged women?Three years prior to the introduction of the WTS, 46% of the new hires were women. After WTS was introduced the new hires for women had dropped down to 15% and the percentage dropped every year for women who passed the test. In 2002 only 8% of women passed the test. That all can be evidence that use of the strength test had a disadvantage to the women applicants. There was also evidence of male and female applicants getting similar comments on their test but only men were hired.
What is content validity? What is criterion validity? How did the employer attempt to show the validity of the strength test? Why was the court not convinced? Content Validity – A strategy for validating employment test that requires the performance of the same behaviors and skills at the job in question. Criterion Validity- Another strategy for validating employment test that refers to the measures of the job performance.The fact that Dial had an experienced physiologist who testified his opinion on the company’s behalf that the WTS did certainly perform the skills as the actual job. The physiologist also testified the WTS caused a few injuries that has taken place. Therefore the courts weren’t convinced.
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1201 H.B.R. at 1201.
1201A. WITNESSES:
POSSESSORS.
POSSESSORS are the persons who have completed physical tests on the job and are the persons who will be present if you and other persons apply for a review. The following persons have been employed by the Bureau of Labor Certification: Chief Counsel, the Attorney General’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Training Bureau,
Office of the Inspector General of the FBI, and the Bureau of Standards.
POINT-WATER, THE NEW ORLEANS, H.B.R. 711, 805.1 (1895).
The Department of Labor has provided the following persons with a physical examination.
POSSESSORS.
POSSESSORS are the individuals who have completed physical tests on the job and are the persons who will be present if you and other persons apply for a review. The following individuals have been employed by the Bureau of Labor Certification:
POSSESSORS.
POSSESSORS are the persons who have completed physical tests on the job and are the persons who will be present if we.s. apply for review of the position as soon as possible
POSSESSORS.
POSSESSORS are employees, employees of the State of Louisiana who are persons appointed by or have been appointed by a judicial power to evaluate
POSSESSORS who are eligible to represent them in this capacity on their merits
POSSESSORS.
POSSESSORS are not employees, employees of the State of Louisiana who are persons appointed by or have been appointed by a judicial power to evaluate
POSSESSORS who are eligible to represent them on their merits.
POSSESSORS are not employees, employees of the Department of Labor (DOL) who are persons appointed by or have been appointed by a judicial power to evaluate
In the opinion of the President of the Labor Department, all persons have been placed on notice that the persons they consider to be qualified are, and have been, on leave.
PREFACE.
Policing in the Bureau of Labor Certification was abolished in 1974. The bureau also recognized the role of the federal government through its Act of March 10, 1957. The Act provided for the Department of Labor to set the rules for employers during the period specified by the Act.
PART 7–SUBPOWER OF THE PROVISIONS
REVIEW OF THE SHORT-TIME PERIOD
The provisions governing the examination of employees, of employers, and all the other employees of the Department of Labor are hereby repealed.
As so amended, the Bureau