Results from an Akron Public Service Lawsuit. A federal jury awarded 23 Akron firefighters nearly $2 million after finding that a 2004 test Akron used for lieutenant and captain positions skewed against white applicants for captain’s rank and black candidates for lieutenant.
The jurors, who delivered their verdict this afternoon before U.S. Judge John R. Adams, also found that the results of the lieutenants’ test also discriminated against candidates over the age of 40.
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Dennis – do you have any details on the case? e.g., how did the employer fail the job-relatedness test?
Bryan – no details yet. If you go by what is in the paper, it may have been as much documentation as job-relatedness. Developing a hypothetical situation based on what was in the paper, and taking into account that Ohio has liberal rules on public records, it could be that one of the issues was that the failure to video tape an oral exercise made it impossible to review whether that oral exercise was properly scored. I do not know if people still do public sector assessment centers, but applying the same logic, one would have to record all exercises so that the scoring could be reviewed at a later date. However, I caution, that is just my interpretation based on what was in the paper.