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- Title
US & Vulcan Society v. NYC: Can Disparate Impact Become a Pattern or Practice of Discrimination?
- Authors
Gutman, Art; Dunleavy, Eric
- Abstract
The article discusses the significance of the court case US & Vulcan Society v. City of New York to industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists. According to the article, the series of rulings involved in the case represent an interesting disparate impact case where the plaintiffs prevailed. The article notes that the potential role of ambiguous historical context in discrimination cases would be of benefit to human resources (HR) risk management approaches that I-O psychologists implement.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DISCRIMINATION lawsuits; INDUSTRIAL psychologists; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); RISK management in business
- Publication
TIP: The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
0739-1110
- Publication type
Article