Employers Must Track Disparate Impact Despite 50-Year Uniform Guidelines Facing End
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Updated · Law.com · Jul 23
Employers Must Track Disparate Impact Despite 50-Year Uniform Guidelines Facing End
2 articles · Updated · Law.com · Jul 23
Summary
Employers still face disparate-impact liability even if the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures are removed from the federal rulebook.
Nearly 50 years of hiring and promotion compliance practices have relied on those guidelines to assess whether selection procedures create unlawful adverse effects.
The warning means companies should keep monitoring employment decisions and validating selection tools rather than treating a regulatory rollback as a shield from liability.
The broader takeaway is that the legal risk comes from disparate-impact law itself, not solely from the continued existence of the federal guidelines.