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January 22, 2010
FDNY ACCUSED OF RACE AND NATIONAL ORIGIN DISCRIMINATION IN HIRING
The New York City Fire Department is being threatened with the imposition of hiring quotas as a remedy for the intentional race and national origin discrimination in their hiring. A Federal Judge in Brooklyn found that two written exams were not job related which had an adverse impact against numerous African-American and Hispanic candidates.
Among the remedial measures to be put in place are immediate emergency hiring of qualified minority candidates and revisions of the exams.
