| Abstrakt: |
While employment tests for selection and promotion have increasingly come under attack in the courts, licensing exams have been immune because of the reluctance on the part of the examinees to challenge the examinations. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Opportunity Act of 1972 were designed to provide protection-for minority groups and women-against discriminatory employment practices, including discriminatory tests. Although the terms licensing and certification are both in the EEOC guidelines, the guidelines themselves do not appear to be applicable to tests used by licensing and certification agencies because these groups are not considered employers as defined by the act. It is important that all who use assessment procedures must develop a new awareness that everything they do that may influence employment decisions must conform to the thrust of emerging guidelines and the direction of court rulings. The watchwords are going to be job relatedness, adverse impact, business necessity, and evidence of validity. |
