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[–] Wisas62@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Your statement is not based on fact. The DEI created metrics that federal employment and federal contractors were required to meet related to DEI.

it's more on the lines of, one of the women quit so we can only interview women because otherwise we won't meet our required diversity goal.

Your statement is the dream goal and not the actual case.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Please just stop. It is explicitly illegal to hire based on any quota in the federal government or for federal contractors.

https://www.huschblackwell.com/newsandinsights/ofccp-investigates-companies-for-diversity-hiring-plans

The point of affirmative action is to hire so that the composition of a contractor’s workforce reflects, over time, the composition of qualified workers in the relevant labor market from which applicants are recruited and selected.

This just boils down to if there are women and minorities in the field they should be considered instead of just white males.

I am really getting sick of all the DEI propaganda. Jesus Christ, I am a hiring manager and I have taken multiple DEI trainings. There are no quotas and the entire point is to get an average hiring manager, which are mostly white males, to consider hiring someone different than themselves.

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I see no facts in your statement either.

And just because something is difficult to achieve automatically means it's wrong to try?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I’m sure this happens but isn’t it just gaming the system, rather than taking the goal seriously?

It’s exactly like the claim that standardized testing tends to make schools teach to the test rather than teach the subject. Yeah, it happens but it’s not the goal nor what must teachers want to do. It’s a failure at the policy level or a failure of the metrics that creates pressure to game the system