As we reported, a white male employee at Yahoo Inc. recently hit the tech giant with a reverse discrimination lawsuit. One lesson from the case is that, in their bid to become more diverse, tech companies may open themselves up to reverse discrimination claims, writes Epstein Becker & Green associate Daniel Green in a recent blog post.
The good news is that companies can proactively mitigate the risk of a reverse discrimination lawsuit. Green argues that companies should focus on promoting diversity through recruitment, as opposed to terminations. He notes that, “in fiscal year 2015, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received more than nine times as many race and sex discrimination complaints alleging wrongful termination as complaints alleging failure to hire.”
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