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Re:Four times I felt discriminated against for being a femal... by WesolyKubeczek on Monday March 08, 2021 @05:43PM (#26392665)
Oh, I think initial guidelines had that.

And then it was all tramped on by some insane incentive like a bonus being dependent on how many "diverse" people a particular person actually gets to hire. Or a stack ranking based on the same.

All it takes is just one perverse component in the mix.

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Re:Four times I felt discriminated against for being a femal... by malandrew on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:25PM (#26393066)
> it was all tramped on by some insane incentive like a bonus being dependent on how many "diverse" people a particular person actually gets to hire

my company has done this and while it's not illegal to provide the incentives, I don't understand how they can expect it not to result in illegal hiring behavior (discrimination based on protected class) by those optimizing for those incentives.

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Re:Four times I felt discriminated against for being a femal... by teddyh on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:52AM (#26396741)
> I don't understand how they can expect it not to result in illegal hiring behavior

Of course they expect it to result in illegal hiring behavior. They just also expect to always get away with it, because some technically illegal things are nonetheless tolerated by society.

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