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This came up at work the other day, and I still find it ridiculous.
I work, as a contractor, for T-Mobile in the HR department. When candidates are filling out an application, it is illegal for us to require them to give us data such as race, gender, disability status and veteran status. Well and good. However, on the back end, the government requires us to give them numbers on the diversity of our interviews and hires. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that... whenever someone doesn't fill out that information, or selects "do not wish to disclose", our recruiters are required to go in and guess, even if they've never seen the person. We're prohibited from collecting the data and required to turn it in. I think it's doing an injustice to guess at the race, disability, and veteran status (gender isn't so hard to figure out, usually) of someone. For all that we're a colorblind society, the recruiters I support recieve their bonuses in part based on their percentage of diverse hires (meaning, hires on everyone not a white male).
I dunno, it seems ludicrous to tell corporate America to ignore race, gender, etc and then to require that information from them with threats of many penalties.
I work, as a contractor, for T-Mobile in the HR department. When candidates are filling out an application, it is illegal for us to require them to give us data such as race, gender, disability status and veteran status. Well and good. However, on the back end, the government requires us to give them numbers on the diversity of our interviews and hires. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that... whenever someone doesn't fill out that information, or selects "do not wish to disclose", our recruiters are required to go in and guess, even if they've never seen the person. We're prohibited from collecting the data and required to turn it in. I think it's doing an injustice to guess at the race, disability, and veteran status (gender isn't so hard to figure out, usually) of someone. For all that we're a colorblind society, the recruiters I support recieve their bonuses in part based on their percentage of diverse hires (meaning, hires on everyone not a white male).
I dunno, it seems ludicrous to tell corporate America to ignore race, gender, etc and then to require that information from them with threats of many penalties.
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