Sentence examples for promotion tests from inspiring English sources

But the city argued that it feared a lawsuit by minority firefighters alleging that the city's promotion tests unintentionally discriminated against blacks and Hispanics.

More than a third of the students who were referred to summer school for failing year-end promotion tests have simply not appeared.

More than 40percentt of students who failed year-end promotion tests in reading during the regular year performed well enough on the summer school test to be promoted on the basis of the test result alone.

Among the questions swirling around Mr. Ricci's case are whether the law should treat diversity in the work force differently from diversity in the classroom and how it should handle hiring and promotion tests that have a severely disparate impact on candidates of one race.

The new standards announced by the court will make it much harder for employers to discard the results of hiring and promotion tests once they are administered, even if they have a disproportionately negative impact on members of a given racial group.

The new standards articulated by the majority were viewed as making it much harder for employers to discard the results of hiring and promotion tests even if they had a disproportionately negative impact on members of a given racial group.

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

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

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 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.

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.