Age discrimination case reiterates importance of promotion policies
A promotional decision may be legally challenged if made by an allegedly biased decision-maker after the employer deviates from its standard selection process. An employer that, without soliciting internal or external applications for an open management position, selects the only candidate who applied may face legal liability to older employees, or others in a protected classification, who reviously had expressed interest in being promoted to the position. That’s a lesson of the recent ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Caldrone v. Circle K Stores Inc.
Click here to read the full article written by SCMV Shareholder Dan Eaton and published in The San Diego Union-Tribune.