Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 9th Edition by Arnold Goldman ,William Sigismond

Exercise 2

A company required a high school diploma or passing scores on intelligence tests as a condition of employment or of transfer to different jobs. It was shown that these conditions had nothing to do with measuring ability to learn to perform a specific job or category of jobs. Some African-American employees sued the company, complaining this was racially motivated and a violation of the Civil Rights Act. Are they correct? (Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424)