AT&G does not have any female employees. Ann Smith applied for a job as a machine operator. Though she did not obtain the minimum score of 40 on the machine operator test, AT&G plans to hire her as part of their new affirmative action plan. There are 10 men who passed the test who did not get hired. Is this legal?

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Mark Michael

27 October, 16:13

AT&G does not have any female employees. Ann Smith applied for a job as a machine operator. Though she did not obtain the minimum score of 40 on the machine operator test, AT&G plans to hire her as part of their new affirmative action plan. There are 10 men who passed the test who did not get hired. Is this legal?

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The act of denying the job to the candidates that passed the test and in order to Ann Smith who failed the test is illegal.

Explanation:

Irrespective of what the gender of the candidate is, denying the job to a candidate who fulfills all the requirements so that the job can be offered to someone else who does not fulfill those is illegitimate. No matter what the policy of the company is, preferring a failed candidate over other candidates that passed cannot be considered as legal.