Q&A
CCHR's testing process for discrimination in the workplace and nature of testers
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Council Member Williams inquires about CCHR's testing process for workplace discrimination and the nature of the testers employed. Deputy Commissioner Carroll and other CCHR representatives provide details on the testing program.
- CCHR conducts significant testing on salary transparency compliance
- Testers use match-paired testing, where all qualities are the same except for one protected class
- Testers also look for per se violations, such as failure to post salary ranges
- Testers are part-time, consistent employees who have been with CCHR for several years
- Testers are not unionized but are considered employees, not consultants
Nantasha M. Williams
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Could you give us more insight into CCHR's testing process and what that looks like specifically in relations to discrimination in the workplace?
Katherine Carroll
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Absolutely.
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We've been doing significant testing on salary transparency since that statute went into effect, and we are continuing to do that and plan to continue to expand that work.
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Our testers do what's called match paired testing, where they will have all their qualities the same except for one protected class and conduct a test that way to see if the person with the protected class gets treated differently.
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In addition, our testers are looking at at publicly available information that might show a per se violation of the statute, such as a failure to post a salary range.
Nantasha M. Williams
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Are these testers, like, full time people within the agency or are these, like, part time random people?
Katherine Carroll
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They're part time.
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Off the
Nantasha M. Williams
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question that I'm just like, who are these guys?
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
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They're part time, but they're not random.
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They're they're so it's it's they've they've all been there for several years.
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So they are part time consistent employees, meaning they're yes.
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So they Do
Amanda FarÃas
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they have to
Nantasha M. Williams
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work in the same arduous process of, like, city employees?
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Or, like, can they or were they quickly hired?
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Like, how does that work?
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Like, are they, like, bona fide city employees?
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Are they do they operate, like, more like consultants?
Katherine Carroll
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They don't operate like consultants.
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However, they're not unionized, is my understanding.
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But they are, as my colleague was saying, they've been our team has been with us for several years now and are, you know, I think wonderful at their jobs.
JoAnn Kamuf Ward
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Yeah.
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But I think they're not consultants in the way that they can be hired in a in a in a at a faster clip, I'll say, than some of the hiring processes that we go through because they're considered employees.
