Adverse Impact Population Pools

Anonymous - July 12, 2017

When comparing Promotions/Employees, is it appropriate to add selections back into the overall employee pool?

For example, say we have 500 active employees when our data snapshot is taken. During the plan year, 50 employees are selected for promotion. Should the promotions be added into the employee pool? I feel like this would falsely inflate the population by counting those employees twice.

1 Answer

Marilynn L. Schuyler, Esq. Senior Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw

Answered on July 12, 2017

Some federal contractors use "beginning of year" data to establish the pool from which promotions are selected. This avoids having to add the employees back into the denominator. However, if you are only using a single "end of year" snapshot, the successful promotions should be deleted from the job group into which they were promoted, and added to the job groups from which they came. This avoids the artificial inflation problem you identified.

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