Mandatory ADB

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 was introduced to protect workers from job discrimination in the workplace. Like all socially responsible programs, it has recently come under attack, led by the efforts of a think-tank at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. They have come up with a way for employers to avoid responsibility for workplace discrimination, by requiring prospective employees to purchase a bond (Anti-Discrimination Bond) through monthly payroll deductions as a condition of employment, to indemnify the employer should the employee later sue. This bond would be required of employees who are in groups protected by the EEOC, as Blacks are.

To show that this bond idea is targeted primarily at Blacks and is inherently racist, there is no talk of requiring such bonds of women who are hired and who could later sue for sexual harassment; neither is this bond being required of elderly hires who could later sue for age discrimination; neither is this being required of workers with disabilities who could later sue for lack of proper accommodations for their disabilities.

I think this bond would be held unconstitutional if challenged in court, but until then, in will be another stumbling block put in the paths of minorities seeking employment.

Instead of companies cleaning up their acts and purging their organizations of racist managers to ensure there is no racism and discrimination being practiced against ANYONE, they prefer instead, to try to discourage possible lawsuits that they know will probably be warranted at some point in the careers of their minority employees.

http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/9574.html