Sentence examples for a promotion test from inspiring English sources

Yes, the firefighter plaintiffs had a serious claim that they suffered discrimination when the city refused to apply a promotion test they passed.

Ricci v. DeStefano 2009 Found that a New Haven, Conn., fire department violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) by discarding the results of a promotion test on which whites performed better than African Americans.

The case began nearly a decade ago with one woman, Stephanie Odle, who was upset to discover that the top manager at the Sam's Club where she worked as an assistant store manager had been administering a promotion test to the three male assistant store managers but not to her.

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The nation's top court came down on the side of the 20 mostly white firefighters who, claiming reverse discrimination, filed suit after not securing promotions despite attaining the highest scores on a promotions test test on which all African American and all but two Hispanic firefighters received a poor score.

Some level of proof is needed that a single wrong (say, a biased promotion test) affected them all: a "culture of bias" is not enough.

The city of New Haven, which the United States Supreme Court found this year to have discriminated against a group of mostly white firefighters, was hit with another federal lawsuit on Thursday, this time from a black firefighter who contends that the way the city scored a 2003 promotion test will keep him from getting the position he deserves.

The court said that if an employer used a hiring or promotion test, it generally had to accept the test's results — unless the employer had strong evidence the test was flawed and improperly favored a particular group.

Gary Tinney, the president of the Firebirds, the black firefighters' association, said black firefighters would sue if the old promotion test was certified.

Procured dehydrated media were used as per the instructions written on the box and growth promotion test of each media carried out before evaluation of samples.

Neither could challenge Liverpool for the title, but both were sure of their places in the promotion test matches.