(Bloomberg Business) — Your company is bracing itself for lawsuits. Yours included.
U.S. employers are anticipating a rise in workplace discrimination claims based on their own hiring policies, a survey released last week shows.
In the study, employment law firm Littler Mendelson asked 500 representatives of companies, with both small and large market capitalizations, about their deepest legal anxieties this year. Fifty-seven percent said they expected an increase in discrimination claims because of their interest in an applicant's criminal history—the companies' top concern when asked about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's enforcement efforts.
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