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fair employment

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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.


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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

Haygrove is "committed to fair employment practices and the wellbeing of all our workers", she said.

From BBC