Anyone involved in hiring practices are prohibited from asking candidates and talent about their actual or perceived race religion, color, sex, orientation, gender, gender identity, military or veteran status, age, disability, or any other legally protected categories.
Because asking is illegal but telling people to hire by them is not.
"Context is critical when evaluating if a group is 'underrepresented'"
Because it's not only illegal to ask about those things directly, but also question designed to uncover them. Like you can't ask what hair products they use to see if they have nappy hair.
HR is telling them do it sneakily, trying to get the candidate to volunteer something and to keep the discrimination decision criteria under the table. Not a lawyer, but this has got to increase their liability a thousand fold.
Bottom of the page is a hoot.
Because asking is illegal but telling people to hire by them is not.
Title of that section is:
"Context is critical when evaluating if a group is 'underrepresented'"
Because it's not only illegal to ask about those things directly, but also question designed to uncover them. Like you can't ask what hair products they use to see if they have nappy hair.
HR is telling them do it sneakily, trying to get the candidate to volunteer something and to keep the discrimination decision criteria under the table. Not a lawyer, but this has got to increase their liability a thousand fold.