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Privacy, The Prospective Employee, And Employment Testing: The Need To Restrict Polygraph And Personality Testing, Donald H.J. Hermann Iii
Privacy, The Prospective Employee, And Employment Testing: The Need To Restrict Polygraph And Personality Testing, Donald H.J. Hermann Iii
Washington Law Review
Criticism of personality and polygraph testing has taken three forms: challenges to the reliability and validity of such testing; concern about the dissemination and availability of testing data; and fear of the loss of personal liberties through invasion of privacy, imposition of psychological inhibitions, and compulsion toward conformity. The question of dissemination of personnel data and the growth of personal dossiers has been dealt with extensively elsewhere, and is generally beyond the scope of this article. This article will consider legal challenges to the reliability and validity of such testing. The scientific criticism of polygraph and personality testing has been …
Labor Relations—Federal Court Injunctions Against Concerted Strike Activity: Norris-Laguardia And Taft-Hartley Accommodated—Boys Markets, Inc. V. Retail Clerk;S Union, Local 770, 398 U.S. 235 (1970), Anon
Washington Law Review
Employer and Union were parties to a collective bargaining agreement in which Union had promised not to strike and each had promised to submit to binding arbitration at the request of the other. A dispute arose, and Union, in spite of the agreement, called a strike and began picketing Employer's building. After attempting unsuccessfully to invoke the grievance and arbitration procedures specified in the agreement, Employer obtained a temporary restraining order forbidding continuation of the strike Union then removed the case to the federal district court and moved to quash the state court's restraining order. Employer, in opposition, moved for …
Remedies For Racial Discrimination In Employment: A Comparative Evaluation Of Forums, Cornelius J. Peck
Remedies For Racial Discrimination In Employment: A Comparative Evaluation Of Forums, Cornelius J. Peck
Washington Law Review
Enactment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with a provision for the awarding of attorneys' fees, opened new opportunities for attorneys in private practice to represent victims of employment discrimination. Within recent years the Act has been predominate in litigation involving racial discriminaton in employment, but imaginative attorneys appealing to innovative courts have used other statutory and common law sources for fashioning relief. The 1866 Civil Rights Act, by analogy to its recent application to discriminatory housing practices, offers an important remedy against racial discrimination to employees. It also promises a protection, not found in Title …