PSY 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Duke Energy, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Disparate Impact
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Opportunity regardless of race, religion, sex, color, national origin. Uniform guidelines = federal regulation on employee selection procedures. Technical guidance that receives great deference by the courts. The eeoc enforces title vii through the uniform guidelines in the courts: what landmark supreme court cases have been tried under title. Griggs applied for a laborer position in a power plant that required a high school degree, however given the disparate impact the burden of proof shifted to duke. Power and they could not prove that having a hs diploma was an essential job function for manual labor. Not technically defensible - no statistical clout (couldn"t prove it) Caused the eeoc to go into detail about the testing of pre-employment procedures. Supreme court specified in greater detail the technical standards for demonstrating job relevance. Uc board of regnents (1978) (this is a. Title ix case, not title vii but very relevant to vii) Applied for admission into university of cali med school.