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EEOC: Austin fire dept. discriminated (against blacks and Hispanics) when hiring
Associated Press ^ | September 18, 2013

Posted on 09/27/2013 8:40:27 PM PDT by reaganaut1

AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Fire Department discriminated against some minority job applicants, a federal review has found.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which looked at the department's hiring practices since 2012, notified city officials in a letter received Monday, the Austin American-Statesman reported (http://bit.ly/1bqW7fb ).

City officials learned of the review in April and said they welcomed the objective oversight.

The EEOC found that some black applicants were discriminated against because of their race and some Hispanics faced discrimination due to their national origins.

"The letter does not say that the city intended to discriminate against any individual or group, but rather that the difference in pass rates between African-Americans and whites was the unintended effect of a neutral testing process," the city contends in a news release.

Fire Chief Rhoda Mae Kerr said in a memo Tuesday to department personnel that the city will not debate the decision. The city has decided not to hire additional personnel from the 2012 candidate list as a result of the EEOC determination, according to Kerr. So far, 96 firefighters from the list have been hired.

(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...


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To: reaganaut1

Austin, lol!
That’s one place that can burn to the ground.


21 posted on 09/27/2013 9:50:31 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: reaganaut1

Neutrality is racism.

Welcome to Obamastan.


22 posted on 09/27/2013 9:51:17 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: reaganaut1

Reading between the lines, it sounds like the ‘discrimination’ consisted of fewer blacks and Hispanics passing the exam.


23 posted on 09/27/2013 9:56:08 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

That is what it says exactly, it also said the exam was neutral. The “racism” is that the exam was NOT discriminatory at all (against whites).


24 posted on 09/27/2013 9:57:05 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Jack Hydrazine

What’s you talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?


25 posted on 09/27/2013 11:14:19 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: reaganaut1; big'ol_freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; RockinRight; ...
Gadzooks! I thought the Peoples Republic of Austin's Progressive Policies did not allow... any Caucasian to be Police or Firemen due to their genetically persuasion to be confirmed without a shadow of any doubt racists.

Well, for that... and their lily white skin--

26 posted on 09/28/2013 2:03:10 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: reaganaut1
They actually simply discriminated against people who can't read.
27 posted on 09/28/2013 8:46:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When your policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on enthusiastic support from Paul.)
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