How can employers avoid racial discrimination on the job?
Employers should not only strive to recruit and hire in a way that provides equal opportunity for workers of all backgrounds to obtain jobs, but should also ensure that race and color discrimination are not barriers to employees’ success once they are in the job. Race or color should not affect work assignments, performance evaluations, training opportunities, discipline, or any other term or condition of employment, except in appropriate circumstances as set forth at Section 15-VI-C of the Compliance Manual section on Race and Color Discrimination. Example: An employer terminates a new Asian employee on the ground that she performs her work too slowly and makes too many mistakes. The investigation reveals that although White employees who perform at a substandard level are coached toward increasingly good performance, new employees of color get less constructive feedback and training. Therefore, they tend to repeat mistakes and make new ones that could have been avoided. A finding of
