By Eric B. Meyer
Preferring to hire women instead of men? Yeah, that’s called discrimination.
Unless, of course, you’re filling server positions at Hooters. But, I’m not going there today.
Instead, the genesis of today’s post is an article I read last by Stan Parker in Law360. Mr. Parker reports that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is suing a federal contractor, which it claims discriminated systematically against qualified men seeking entry-level production jobs.
According to the OFCCP press release, the employer allegedly used gender stereotypes, but putting women in light duty jobs, which is where the majority of hiring occurred. Meanwhile, OFCCP claims that the men were “relegated generally to loader and utility positions, where less hiring took place. OFCCP also claims that more men applied to the company for jobs than women.
Obviously, there are just allegations. However, there are three lessons:
This was originally published on Eric B. Meyer’s blog, The Employer Handbook.