State Attorneys General Warn Google, Other Fortune 100 Companies Not to Use Race in Employment Decisions

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Companies like Google and Facebook have boasted about the success of their racial preferences and quotas in hiring. The attorneys general cautioned these practices are ‘both immoral and illegal.’

The Tennessee and Kansas attorneys general are co-leading the effort challenging race-based employment practices, according to a, with support from the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

[T]he Supreme Court struck down Harvard’s and the University of North Carolina’s race-based admissions policies and reaffirmed “the absolute equality of all citizens of the United States politically and civilly before their own laws.” Notably, the Court also recognized that federal civil-rights statutes prohibiting private entities from engaging in race discrimination apply at least as broadly as the prohibition against race discrimination found in the Equal Protection Clause.

In 2021, according to CNBC, a Google spokesperson reported 2020 was the company’s best year “for hiring Black workers,” who “represented 8.77% of U.S. hiring in 2020 compared with 5.5% in 2019.”

 

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