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This tech giant is facing its third discrimination lawsuit related to DEI policies.
What is IBM?
This type of corporate report in 2023 reaffirmed that IBM tied bonuses to workforce demographics.
What is an ESG report?
The three components of DEI.
What is diversity, equity, and inclusion?
What can IBM do in the future to resolve the issue?
Any act that helps implement a fair DEI.
Women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities are collectively known as these groups who have been historically disadvantaged in employment.
What are designated groups?
The plan that the lawsuit claims is "impossible to meet".
What is performance improvement plan?
The type of hiring when a company tries to hire more women or minorities.
What is diverse hiring?
How does IBM manage diversity and inclusion in the article?
IBM managed diversity and inclusion poorly.
The percentage of aimed hiring quotas IBM announced in the article for women globally and associates of color domestically.
What is the aim of 30%?
This controversial practice, allegedly used by some companies to meet DEI targets, involves setting informal goals or limits based on race during hiring or layoffs.
What are racial hiring quotas?
These two types of discrimination were alleged in lawsuits.
What are age discrimination and race discrimination?
What are the benefits of DEI?
Broadening the amount of qualified individuals for employment, training, and promotions.
The lawsuits claim IBM favored these two demographics over older White male employees.
What are women and minorities?
This Workplace principle, meant to ensure fair treatment for all employees, is being challenged in alleging lawsuit with IBM discriminating against older White men.
What is employment equity?
The commission that helps deal with similar complaints from the article in Canada that is covered by the Canadian Human Rights Act.
What is the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)?
The exclusion of members of certain groups through the application of employment policies or practices based on criteria that are not job related.
What is Systemic discrimination?
The act that company engaged in practices that disadvantaged older White male employees during hiring and layoffs to achieve its diversity targets.
What is reverse discrimination?
This legal defense only allows for discrimination if there is a justifiable reason for discrimination based on business reasons of safety or effectiveness, which IBM likely is unable to claim.
What is a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)?