Perfectly coiffed and wearing a beige dress, Mrs. Vernon answered the children's questions with business-like brevity.
But civil rights law converts the disparity into an instant presumption of bias, raising the question of whether the tests that produced them are "job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity" (the wording of the 1991 Civil Rights Act).
Under the guidelines, an employer can exclude applicants with criminal convictions provided it can demonstrate that the exclusion is "job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity" — a phrase that appears in the law itself and is not defined in the guidance.
Already, Mr. Eastman said, the Civil Rights Act outlaws employment practices that have "a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin," unless an employer can show that a particular practice is "job related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity".
Notwithstanding § 1630.2 j)(1)(vi) of this part, a covered entity shall not use qualification standards, employment tests, or other selection criteria based on an individual's uncorrected vision unless the standard, test, or other selection criterion, as used by the covered entity, is shown to be job related for the position in question and is consistent with business necessity.
Mr. Entner said the sticking point on the growth of the phone as a full-service payment device had less to do with technology, which is adequate, and more to do with business questions.
My advisor was great; he challenged me with business questions I didn't yet have the answers to.
Seen from this perspective, Mel's question is not about familiarity with business.
When he answered a business question with detail, Mr. Abrams said "Good".
