Session Builders Series 100: 60 Exercises for Management and Supervisory Training

SB 134 Handout 2 (continued)

7. An applicant’s lack of English language skills cannot be used as a basis for

nonemployment unless those skills are required to successfully do the job.

True. Unlawful discrimination occurs when an employment decision is based on

the national origin of the person adversely affected by that decision. There are

ways in which the law may be violated other than by a denial of job rights. The

incidence of unlawful national origin bias is not confined to discriminatory hiring,

assignment, seniority, and promotion policies. Adverse employment decisions

based on an applicant’s or employee’s lack of English language skills have been

considered violative of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act where the language