The Legal Environment for Assessment The legal landscape influencing the use of assessments for employment decisions has changed substantively over the past thirty years. Summarize the contemporary...

The Legal Environment
Law acts as second circuit court of appeals that determined around 30 years ago about intersection of science and law while its matter of employment assessment or testing. Preference must be given to science even though the science of testing is not perfect as such and law must subject these findings to guidance as well as scrutiny of reason. Courts have already taken this opportunity for interpretation as well as evaluation of the findings by the industrial organizational psychologists (Ashe & Lunquist, 2010). 
Law regarding the uniform guidelines on employee selection, civil rights act title VII, ADA that is Americans with Disabilities act, department of justice, department of labor, civil service commission, EEOC that is equal employment opportunity commission along with host of other conditions such as disparate impact, discrimination, disparate treatment to minimize exposure to litigation that could be much expensive while ensuring success must be understood by the employers, employees, defendants as well as plaintiffs. Contemporary legal as well as professional standards guiding use of assessment in workplace could be summarized as Griggs V. Duke power co. had established a vital legal precedent of disparate impact due to the discrimination caused by the assessment testing. As per...