African American Discrimination

African American discrimination can happen very easily if you let it just as this example of a discrimination story will demonstrate.

Make sure you cover discrimination in your employee handbook.

You be the judge of the following possible discrimination scenario that involves age.

Recently there was a Department Manager of a Sales Department that had three open slots for a company sponsored supervisor training program. The training program was designed to prepare potential supervisors for a supervisory position within the company. This training was offered only one time per year.

In order to be considered for the training program interested employees would submit their written requests to their supervisor, prior to the deadline set by the company. Each Department Manager would review those requests for the most qualified candidates. The Department Manager would then submit the number of candidates they had slots for to the Regional Manager for final approval.

Out of the three candidates that the Department Manager selected, one was an African American. Based on the forwarding information to the Regional Manager the Department Manager gave very supportive recommendations for all three candidates.

The Regional Manager accepted two of the three candidates for the training program. The African American candidate was not accepted to the program. In fact the Regional Manager replaced that slot with Caucasian male from that department that had not submitted a written request at all. The Regional Manager stated in an email that they felt this alternate selection had more potential. They went on to say that the Department Manager should have reviewed the candidates more thoroughly and given more consideration to all the aspects of the candidate including their background and personal life.

Is the company open to a racial discrimination claim?

Can what you say in an email be used?

There is certainly some problems with this but no guarantee. One major problem is the Regional Manager overriding the Department Managers recommendation with someone that had not formally requested in writing to be considered. The additional email comments were also troublesome.

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