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Re:75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time The... by SenAnder on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:20AM (#38359673)
Notably, "justification" is an affirmative defense (they don't have to prove you were unjustified - you have to prove you were justified. Guilty until proven innocent, in other words), and in practice must meet a very high bar - e.g. Griggs v. Duke Power Co., that started all this, ruled that an IQ test for management positions is not justified. More recently, a test for teachers where Whites had a higher pass rate than Blacks or Latinos (no word on Asians) was also ruled unjustified:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-latino-teachers-collectin...

Re:75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time The... by Manuel_D on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:54AM (#38359907)
A controversial ruling, especially given how prevalent exams are for employment: MD, JD for lawyers, heck even a bachelor's degree is a disparate impact. Notably, one of the lawyers who helped overturn Brown vs Board of Education (now a judge) ruled in favor of New York in a lower court: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-teach...