
Often Overlooked But Increasingly Adjudicated: Discriminatory Pre-Employment Testing, Selection Criteria and Advertising Leads to Litigation
So far this year we’ve witnessed an inglorious trend of pre-employment discrimination. Examples of this unlawful pre-hiring include strength-based tests, advertising with preferences for younger workers, unlawful recruitment practices slanted toward a specific group, pre-employment inquiries about an individual’s disability and requests for photographs prior to the interview. California courts routinely evaluate pre-hiring practices by analyzing whether the policies and