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Originally Posted by saratogaman
There is no federal law that mandates what you say. Affirmative action does not set mandates or quotas. You are simply wrong. Anything that you say based on that is de facto fundamentally unfounded and wrong. Period.
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That is not correct. The affirmative action law mandates that employers prepare an affirmative recruitment and employment plan with a goal to have a workforce that is diversified and has "parity" in the workforce with respect to the protected groups named in the law. The groups are:
African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and women
It isn't a quota, but many companies have been sued by the Federal EEOC for, either not having a plan at all or for not making an effort to hire employees from these specific groups of people. For example, if you have a workforce that is all men or all whites, and you don't have a written affirmative employment plan and haven't made a sincere effort to hire minorities and women, you are violating the law. The EEOC can sue you in Federal court, and you can be fined and forced to change your hiring practices. It is a mandate.