Appeals erred in examining the employer's intent; but good intent or absence of discriminatory intent does not redeem employment procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as "built-in headwinds" for minority groups and are unrelated to measuring job... Civil Rights Digest - Page 151974Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity - 1972 - 678 pages
...overt discrimination but also practices that are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation .... [G]ood intent or absence of discriminatory intent...procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as 'built-in headwinds' for minority groups and are unrelated to measuring job capability." Id., 430-32. Testing... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1973 - 1044 pages
...racial group and that could not be justified by business necessity. We indicated in that case that "good intent or absence of discriminatory intent does...procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as 'built-in headwinds' for minority groups." 535 MARSHALL, J., dissenting Id., at 432. We said, in fact, that "Congress... | |
| United States. Congress. House Foreign Affairs - 1973 - 1134 pages
...Gat Co., 409 F. 2d 775 (3rd Cir., 1969). » In Griggs, the Court discussed the question of intent: (G)ood intent or absence, of discriminatory intent does not redeem employment procedures of testing mechanisms that operate as "built-in headwinds for minority groups and are unrelated to... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1975 - 668 pages
...that either the District Court or the Court of Appeals erred in examining the employer's intent ; but good intent or absence of discriminatory intent does...procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as "built-in headwinds" for minority groups and are unrelated to measuring job capability. The Company's lack of... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1975 - 1244 pages
...discrimination but also practices that are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. . . . [AJbsence of discriminatory intent does not redeem employment...procedures or testing mechanisms that operate as 'built-in headwinds' for minority groups . . . [401 US at 431-432 (1971).] The same principle has been applied... | |
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