Sentences with phrase «used discriminatory practices»

Earlier this month, the National Fair Housing Alliance filed a complaint with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development against Wells Fargo, alleging that the bank used discriminatory practices in the handling of foreclosed properties.

This was a flimsy pretense, however, since the New York State Liquor Authority (SLA) refused to grant liquor licenses to any bar that served homosexual customers, and the police department routinely used this discriminatory practice as a reason to arrest LGBT patrons.

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To use smart algorithms responsibly, companies — particularly financial services firms — must identify potential problems early and have a well - conceived plan for addressing and removing unintended bias before it leads to discrimination in their lending practices, as well as potential discriminatory biases that may reach beyond lending and affect other aspects of a company's operations.

Produced by the EA Theology Advisory Group (TAG), the report outlined how «spiritual abuse» is a seriously problematic term because attempts by some to use it for safeguarding laws «would be unworkable in practice, potentially discriminatory towards religious communities, and damaging to inter-faith relations».

Employers would not be required to use these powers, but would be able to do so without the threat of legal action for discriminatory practices.

The AAAS Dialogue Group offers this Statement as a contribution to the on - going public debate in the hope of protecting Americans from discriminatory practices in health insurance based on the use of genetic information produced by predictive testing.

Today we will be discussing the use of credit checks in the hiring process and this meeting will be the first in a series of meetings examining practices that may create discriminatory barriers for job seekers and unfairly screen out qualified workers.

The racially discriminatory potential of employment credit checks is the key reason that civil rights organizations such as the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law have publicly opposed the use of employment credit checks.13 In general, civil rights law mandates that employers justify the appropriateness of an employment practice if it creates a disparate impact on a group historically subject to workplace discrimination.

Amends Ohio's Civil Rights Law; It is considered a discriminatory practice to use a person's credit rating or score or consumer credit history as a factor in making decisions regarding that person's employment

Act as public educators and advocates for appropriate use of service dogs, with particular focus on psychiatric service dog partnership, which is often less - familiar and subject to discriminatory practice

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services or the Sites to take any actions that: (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, discriminatory based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex or disability, pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the Animal League or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN - SPAM Act of 2003); (vii) would encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of the Animal League's or other's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other Animal League members, Site users or attempt to gain access to other Animal League members information, or otherwise mine information about Animal League members, Site users, or the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary to the Animal League's public image, goodwill, reputation or mission or otherwise not in furtherance of the Animal Leagues stated purposes.

The article alleges that she was responsible for discriminatory hiring practices, using age and race as determining factors in hiring.

Both Facebook itself and the Ontario Human Rights Commission posted a statement cautioning employers from using this practice since it may be used to indirectly obtain discriminatory information.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has broad duties to conduct research and education programs and to use its persuasive powers to discourage and reduce discriminatory practices.

Once a discriminatory impact is shown, the employer carries the burden of proving that the challenged practice «bear [s] a demonstrable relationship to successful performance of the jobs for which it was used.»

Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein stops decades of New York personal injury practice dead in its tracks when he tosses out the actuarial life expectancy tables we use because the distinction between black and white life spans is discriminatory and unconstitutional (New York Law Journal via Law.com):

However, the use of such factors is often considered to be unfair or unlawfully discriminatory, and the reaction against this practice has in some instances led to political disputes about the ways in which insurers determine premiums and regulatory intervention to limit the factors used.

«Employers will have to make sure that if they use big data while performing background checks for employment that they do not knowingly, or unknowingly, enable and automate potentially discriminatory hiring practices,» Rosen said.

In light of the EEOC's commitment to rooting out discriminatory use of background checks, it is very important that employers give significant thought to their use of background checks and have constructed job - related justifications for the practices and criteria used.

These guidelines were designed to protect applicants from discriminatory hiring practices based on the use of criminal checks and other potentially discriminating background information.

As a result, the EEOC held a public Commission meeting in October 2010 to hear testimony on the growing use of credit histories of job applicants as selection criteria during employment background screening to see if the practice is discriminatory.

Critics of using credit histories for employment purposes said the practice can have a disparate and discriminatory impact on protected groups, including people of color, women, and the disabled.

The Commission recommends that the Government take steps to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution; remove the discriminatory section 25 of the Constitution and replace it with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law; reform the Native Title Act to address measures that have been found to be racially discriminatory; [19] provide reparations to Indigenous communities for harm resulting from past child removal practices; and take measures to protect and promote Indigenous cultural and intellectual property, connection to traditional land through homelands and outstations, as well as the use of increasingly threatened languages, including through support for bilingual education programs.

Some real estate professionals, realty web site operators and real estate industry affiliated content providers believe net neutrality provisions are necessary to prevent broadband providers (cable and telephone companies, primarily) from implementing possibly discriminatory practices that could negatively impact their use of the Internet to market listings and services.