Hiring discrimination claims: 5 ways to stay out of hot water
Learn from a real employer's mistakes. Imagine this scenario: You are advertising for an open position. You get three applicants: Applicant 1 meets or exceeds all of your requirements. Applicant 2 fails to meet your minimum requirements. Applicant 3 meets some of your minimum requirements, but not all. You interview all three, and what do you do? Oooooh, Robin, pick me! Pick me! Make an offer to #1! I said to "imagine" this scenario, but it's a real-life scenario from a real-life lawsuit. Rather than extend an offer to Applicant 1, the employer in this case offered the job to both Applicant 2 and Applicant 3. In other words, it hired two people even though only one position was vacant, and even though Applicant 1 was far more qualified than the others. (Applicant 2 was later moved into a different position for which she was presumably qualified.) "UMM, WE'RE GONNA MOVE IN A YOUNGER, LESS-DISABLED -- ER, I MEAN DIFFERENT -- DIRECTION." Allow me to i...