Pre-Employment personality tests, algorithmic bias, and the Americans with Disabilities Act

KC Timmons - Penn St. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
Vendors of pre-employment personality tests promise that their products will help employers
identify the ideal candidate for each job in a cost-effective manner, while improving diversity …

Why is the Company Asking about my Fear of Spiders-A New Look at Evaluating Whether an Employer-Provided Personality Test Constitutes a Medical Examination …

SP Kramer - U. Ill. L. Rev., 2007 - HeinOnline
This note explores whether a personality test constitutes a medical examination under the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). Many modern-day employers use personality …

Workplace personality testing: Towards a better way of determining whether personality tests are prohibited pre-offer medical exams under the Americans with …

KM Willner, SP Sonnenberg, TH Wemmer… - … Relations Law Journal, 2016 - go.gale.com
Some of the most significant legal risks associated with the use of personality tests to screen
applicants far hiring or promotion ame under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 …

Personality testing in employment: Useful business tool or civil rights violation?

AM Goldstein, SD Epstein - The Labor Lawyer, 2008 - JSTOR
The use of personality and psychological assessment tests in screen-ing and hiring job
applicants has become standard practice at many large companies in the United States. 1 …

To test or not to test: The status of psychological testing under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

DW Arnold, AJ Thiemann - Journal of Business and Psychology, 1992 - Springer
Abstract The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) serves as a safeguard that employers are
using only nondiscriminatory and valid selection measures. This article clarifies the point …

The use of personality tests as a hiring tool: is the benefit worth the cost?

SJ Stabile - U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L., 2001 - HeinOnline
The costs of making bad hiring decisions and the difficulties of getting meaningful
information from reference checks of prospective employees have led many employers to …

Pre-Employment Inquiries: Drug Testing, Alcohol Screening, Physical Exams, Honesty Testing, Genetics Screening-Do They Discriminate-An Empirical Study

DH Stone - Akron L. Rev., 1991 - HeinOnline
How do employers decide who to hire for their workplace? Are there tests that are
administered to screen out those job applicants that do not fit the employer's profile for good …

Concepts of discrimination in general ability job testing

M Kelman - Harv. L. Rev., 1990 - HeinOnline
Federal civil rights laws prohibit employers from screening potential employees by means of
general intelligence tests if the tests are not related to job performance. and have a …

Americans with disabilities: Are they losing ground?

NL Essex - The Clearing House, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
NATHAN L. ESSEX ongress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act C (ADA) in 1990 to
protect disabled individuals against discriminatory practices in employment based solely on …

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Exploring Liability Under the Americans with Disabilities Act and Regulatory Solutions

KE Egger - Washburn LJ, 2020 - HeinOnline
Consider an individual named Jane who is looking to change her job. 1 Jane is interested in
Company A, and the application for the available position requires Jane to take an online …