Sentence examples for hiring test from inspiring English sources

Finally, Judge Sotomayor was part of a panel of judges that ruled, based on established precedent, that a hiring test given by the New Haven fire department should be scrutinised for bias, after all the African-American applicants and all but one Hispanic failed the test.

Workers won an important victory at the Supreme Court on Monday when the justices ruled unanimously that a group of African-American applicants to the Chicago Fire Department did not wait too long to challenge a hiring test they claimed was discriminatory.

When Epiphany Biosciences, a tiny San Francisco drug developer, was looking for a hepatitis C antiviral compound to test in the lab, it could have saved a few thousand bucks by hiring test tube drones from India.

If you do well on the hiring test, you'll be interviewed individually.

The federal judge overseeing a discrimination lawsuit against the city's Fire Department ruled on Wednesday that the hiring test being used by the department was unfair to minority applicants and issued an injunction that will prevent the city from offering positions to 300 applicants who had already taken the exam.

If the employer is sued, and a prima facie case is established, she can rebut the prima facie case by showing that the hiring procedure in question is job-related and justified by business necessity, unless the government agency or individuals bringing suit can propose an alternative hiring test that is just as good for the purpose and would not have disparate impact.

According to court documents, Mr. Mumford hired test takers as early as 1995 and continued through at least 2010.

They hire test preparation coaches.

"At the peak of hiring under the Recovery Act we had less than 1percentt of those hired test positive".

The Justice Department contended that written hiring tests used by the Fire Department were biased.

The New York Fire Department office that handles discrimination complaints shrank during a period when the federal government was suing the agency on the grounds that its hiring tests were biased, an assistant fire commissioner testified in United States District Court on Monday.