fair employment

noun

1. the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, skin color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, or disability.

Example Sentences

Using the threat of a mass March on Washington in 1941, he pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt to enact an executive order that banned ethnic and racial discrimination in the country’s defense industries and established the Fair Employment Practice Committee.

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Just weeks later, the case drew national attention again when the lawyer overseeing the case for the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Janet Wipper, was fired by the Newsom administration, and her chief deputy resigned and alleged that she was doing so to protest alleged interference of Newsom’s office in the investigation.

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Podesta from 2017 to 2020 served as secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, which included the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing — the agency that launched the investigation of Activision in 2018.

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A three-judge panel, however, ruled that the system’s policy violates California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act and that fear of federal litigation is not sufficient grounds to uphold it.

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But Rodriguez sued under the state’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, which the court said bans harassment based on disabilities but not harassment based on retaliation for objecting to illegal police activity.

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