The part about “that would be illegal” hits home. I had one boss who found a loophole in the discrimination laws. He only wanted to hire “good christians.” Rather than screen resumes himself, he found a headhunter (recruiter) who only represented “good christians.” I didn’t catch on until, during interviews, yet another candidate started talking about how he regularly attended church.
And since this was just about the ONLY criteria to get the job (trumping experience or competency), after a year or two of this the small engineering company went straight down the tubes.
It’s conversations like this which makes me wish Norm had run a story arc wherein Stuart for some reason wound up having to testify in court, and wondering by the end end why the judge and everyone else was glowering at him. “The judge threw the book at me… and I wasn’t EVEN on trial!”
The part about “that would be illegal” hits home. I had one boss who found a loophole in the discrimination laws. He only wanted to hire “good christians.” Rather than screen resumes himself, he found a headhunter (recruiter) who only represented “good christians.” I didn’t catch on until, during interviews, yet another candidate started talking about how he regularly attended church.
And since this was just about the ONLY criteria to get the job (trumping experience or competency), after a year or two of this the small engineering company went straight down the tubes.
Still illegal. If the way you do hiring tends to screen out people based on a protected class, you are almost certainly in violation of EOE laws.
But the store is open on Sundays! If he only hired church going Christians how is he going to staff the store on Sundays?
It’s conversations like this which makes me wish Norm had run a story arc wherein Stuart for some reason wound up having to testify in court, and wondering by the end end why the judge and everyone else was glowering at him. “The judge threw the book at me… and I wasn’t EVEN on trial!”
“…”
“Marla, go serve my sentence for me.”
Still highly illegal, Stuart