MGMT 307 – Human Resource Management

In June of this year the Supreme Court ruled in favor of white firefighters from New Haven, CT.  The court declared that the white firefighters were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide.  Interestingly, the court reversed a ruling made by new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor when she was an Appeals Court Judge.  In the case, blacks sought to call the results of an exam in which no blacks scored high enough to be promoted as flawed and prejudiced.  Sotomayor’s court threw out the results, but the white firefighters took it to the supreme court and won.