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A staffing company allegedly fulfilling a customer’s discriminatory hiring practices learned this lesson the hard way.
Two years ago, the EEOC announced that it had sued a staffing company that allegedly honored requests that some business clients made over several years to fill positions with only male workers. The EEOC charged that managers instructed recruiters to comply with these gender-based requests to appease clients. Supposedly, the staffing agency told female workers that specific jobs were unavailable or would not be a good placement due to their gender. For example, recruiters informed women that labor-intensive jobs would be too hard, that