Racial Discrimination

May 2007

A company can be held liable for the discriminatory practices of a supervisor. In the case, an HR employee terminated an employee for missing work without permission. The court ruled that the company could be held liable because the HR employee did not conduct even a cursory investigation into the incident to determine whether the supervisor was acting appropriately.

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An amendment introduced by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) to improve oversight of the FBI National Name Check Program was included in the 2007 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which was signed into law (P.L. 110-161). The law is designed to make the program, under which the government conducts background checks on its employees and on anyone applying for immigration benefits, more efficient.

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