CP conjectures that the opposite, namely that men are taller than women, must also be true. (See 619, Grooming Standards, for a detailed discussion of long hair cases.). preclude the hiring of individuals over the specified maximum height. Your height and weight is roughly that of a typical ten year old boy or eleven or twelve year old girl. Lift and drag a 165-pound mannequin 40 feet 4. The defendants responded that height and weight requirements "have a relationship to strength, . The respondent must consider individual abilities and capabilities. who were over 6'5" and that R employed White pilots who exceeded the maximum height. unjustified notions render its actions discriminatory since its distinctions are based on sex. to applicants for guard accorded Black males versus Black females); and 621.1(b)(2)(i) (where appropriate use of national statistics is discussed).). However, such comparisons are simply unfounded. The minimum age requirement for a police officer is between 18-21 years of age. The prior incumbent, the selectee, and the charging party were all female, and females, not the males, to be "shapely". Physical strength requirements as discussed in this section are different from minimum weight lifting requirements which are discussed in 625, BFOQ. 71-2643, CCH EEOC Decisions (1973) 6286; and Commission Decision No. and over possessed the physical 1980), and Vanguard Justice Society Inc. v. Hughes, 471 F. Supp. CP, a Hispanic who failed the tests, alleges national origin discrimination in that Anglos are permitted to pass despite how they actually perform on the test. As R's maximum weight policy is applied only to females, the policy is discriminatory. Another problem the EOS might encounter is that the charge is filed by members of a "subclass," e.g., Asian women. (i) Get a list of their names and an indication of how they are affected. Official websites use .gov substantial number of R's existing employees and new hires were under 5'8" tall. Andhra University 1st year question papers for B.Sc in Computers | Eligibility for admission in MSc paleontology? Flight attendants found in violation of the policy three times are discharged. N.Y. 1978), a police department's application of different minimum height requirements for males as opposed to females was found to constitute sex discrimination. CP, a 5'7" Black female, applied for but was denied an assembly line position because she failed to meet Local Commissions may adopt the following height and weight schedule in its entirely and may exercise the option of permitting no exceptions The purpose of this study was to profile the current level of fitness for highway patrol officers based on age and . Citizenship: A U.S. citizen or permanent resident with a valid Green Card. statutes. Most airlines require that its flight attendants not exceed a This document is intended only to provide clarity to the public regarding existing requirements under the law or agency policies. (The issue of whether adverse impact Prohibited disparate treatment can also occur where maximum weight limitations are imposed on females in exclusively female job categories such as flight attendants but not on male employees such as directors of passenger service who perform Lines, 14 EPD 7600 (S.D. Instead, charging parties can 1978). is a minimum height/weight requirement, are applicants actually being rejected on the basis of physical strength. unanimously concluded that standards which allow women but not men to wear long hair do not violate Title VII. could be achieved by adopting and validating a test for applicants that measures strength directly.". subject to the employees' personal control. The policy was not uniformly applied. determine if there is evidence of adverse impact. Physical standards to become an RCMP officer. The charge should, however, be accepted, assigned a charge number, and the file closed and a notice But on Tuesday, a court in . consideration for employment. Employees or applicants of employers that are recipients of federal contracts should contact the United States Department of prohibited sex discrimination. The state study, which was refuted by a LEAA study that reached different These two approaches are illustrated in the examples which follow. frequently disciplined for violating it, that the policy was not applied to males, that no male had ever been disciplined for violating it, and that many of the males were overweight. (1) Secure a detailed statement delineating exactly what kind of height and weight requirements are being used and how they are being used. national statistical pool, the EOS should consult 610, Adverse Impact in the Selection Process. 1-800-669-6820 (TTY) R was unable to offer any evidence Absent a showing by respondent that the requirement constitutes a business necessity, it is violative of Title VII. The court was not persuaded by respondent's argument that taller officers have the advantage in subduing suspects and observing field situations, so as to make the The Office of Legal Counsel, Guidance Division should therefore be contacted for assistance when charges based on this issue arise. show that a particular employer has a minimum height or weight requirement that disproportionately excludes them based on national statistics which indicate that their protected group or class is not as tall or weighs less than other groups or 1607, there is a substantial difference and bore a relationship to strength were found to be inadequate absent evidence showing a correlation between height and weight requirements and strength. revealed that although only two out of 237 female flight attendants employed by R are Black, there is no statistical or other evidence indicating that Black females as a class weigh more than White females. The required height for women is relaxable to 145 cm in the case of applicants from ST and races like Gorkhas, Garhwalis, Assamese, Kumaonis, Nagaland Tribals, and others. In Commission Decision No. d. improved educational opportunities. Therefore, if, for example, Black or Hispanic females allege that because of peculiar racial or national Smith v. Troyan, 520 F.2d 492, 10 EPD 10,263 (6th Cir. Although the problem of maximum weight limitations arises in other contexts (see the examples below), it is most frequently encountered when dealing with airline respondents. This was sufficient to establish a There may occasionally be instances where it is not appropriate to use national statistics as the basis for the analysis. Jarrell v. Eastern height requirement a business necessity. (i) If there are documents get copies. The When you are accepted as a cadet with the RCMP you are expected to enter cadet training with a good level of physical fitness. In addition to physiological differences, arguments have been advanced that weight is not an immutable characteristic (see 621.5(a)) and that policies based on personal appearance (see 619, Grooming Standards) do not result in R had no Black pilots, and no Blacks were accepted as pilot trainees. alternatives that have less of an adverse impact. 1-844-234-5122 (ASL Video Phone) (See Example 3 below.). positions constitutes unlawful sex discrimination in violation of Title VII. CP, a 5'5 1/2" female applicant, applied for but was denied a police officer job. Thereafter, the Court determined that the burden which shifted men must be disproportionately excluded from employment by a maximum height requirement, in the same manner as women are disproportionately excluded from employment by a minimum height requirement. based on standard height/weight charts. The unvalidated test required applicants to, among other things, carry a 150 lb. or have anything to say? Except for a fact situation like the one suggested in 621.3(a) above, it is unlikely that a charging party will be able to establish that his protected group or class is on average taller than other groups or classes and In order to establish a prima facie case of adverse impact regarding use of maximum weight requirements, a protected group or class member would have to show disproportionate exclusion of his/her protected group or class because of That court left open the question of whether discrimination can occur where women are forced to resort to "diuretics, diet pills, and crash dieting" to meet disparate weight requirements. This issue is non-CDP. Even though the job categories are different in this case, since the jobs are public contact jobs and R is The question of what would constitute an adequate business necessity defense so as to entitle the employer to maintain minimum height standards was not addressed by the Court in Dothard v. Rawlinson, supra. R imposed this minimum weight requirement upon the assumption that only persons 150 lbs. R's personnel take applicants to private rooms and independently administer and rate the tests. (See 621.1(b)(2)(i), above.) exclusion from employment based on their protected status and being overweight. The same is true if there are different requirements for different group or class members, e.g., where the employer has a 5'5" minimum height requirement A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. 76-45, CCH Employment Practices Guide 6634, where adverse impact was also alleged, the Commission found that absent statistical evidence that Hispanics as a class weigh proportionally more than persons of other requirement. charts. The employer, if it wants to retain the requirements, must show that they constitute a business 1979). 76-132, CCH Employment Practices Guide 6694, the Commission found that a prima facie case of sex discrimination resulting from application of minimum height requirements was not rebutted by a state For instance, in U.S. v. Lee Way Motor Freight Inc., 7 EPD 9066 (D.C. Okla. 1973), the respondent, a trucking company, strictly applied its height and weight requirements for driver discrimination filed by a Black female is evaluated in terms of her race and sex separately); Payne v. Travenol Laboratories, Inc. , 673 F.2d 798, 28 EPD 32,647 (5th Cir. plaintiff's legal theory was inadequate since weight is subject to one's control and not an unchangeable characteristic entitled to protection under Title VII. The ACFT is scored using different requirements depending on gender and age. 1-844-234-5122 (ASL Video Phone), Call 1-800-669-4000 A candidate's physical ability is determined by taking the Physical Ability Test. between Asian women and White males, if they constitute the majority of the selectees. The maximum score per event is 100 points, with a total maximum ACFT score of 600. impact, instead of actual applicant flow data. national statistics indicate that females on average are not as tall and do not weigh as much as males. there was no evidence that a shorter male would not also have been rejected. therefore evidence of adverse impact if the selection rate for the excluded group is less than 80% of the rate for the group with the highest selection rate. Since it is would be excluded by the application of those minimum requirements. Connecticut v. Teal, 457 U.S. 440, 29 EPD 32,820 (1982). The following table of height and weight is to be adhered to in all instances except where a particularly unusual situation is found and is documented by a special report of the examining physician. 5'7 1/3". race. ability/agility test. No such restrictions were placed on the hiring of other personnel such as file clerks, secretaries, or professionals. The employer must use the least restrictive alternative. women passed the wall requirement, and none passed the sandbag requirement. CP, an overweight Black female file clerk, applied and was rejected for a vacant receptionist position. I have been informed that, at present, the firefighters council requires all applicants for employment as firefighters to be at least 5'6" in height, with weight proportionate to height. Investigation revealed that R had no Black assembly line workers and that a Gerdom v. Continental Air Lines Inc., 692 F.2d 602, 30 EPD 33,156 (9th Cir. (Where other than public contact positions are involved, Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Relying on national statistics, the Court reasoned that over forty (40) percent of the female population, as compared with only one percent of the male population, . noncontrollable trait peculiar to their group or class (see Example 2 above) should be accepted and analyzed in terms of adverse impact. In terms of an adverse impact analysis, the Court in Dothard v. Rawlinson looked at national statistics showing that the minimum 120-pound weight requirement would exclude 22.29% of females, as compared to only 2.35% of males. necessity without which the business could not safely and efficiently be performed. supra court cases came to different conclusions. objects. more than other persons there is no basis for concluding that the respondent's failure to hire Black persons who exceed the maximum weight limit constitutes race discrimination. As a result, argues CP, standard height/weight limits disproportionately exclude Black females, as opposed to White females, from flight attendant positions. 54 (3) Determine what evidence is available to support the charge. Among the first screening tests were height and weight requirements. ), In Example 1 above, weight, in the sense of females as a class being more frequently overweight than males, is a mutable characteristic. For Armed Forces female applicants, the cause for rejection to the U.S. military is height less than 58 inches and more than 80 inches according to some statistics. They did not fairly and substantially relate to the performance of the duties of a police the job would be futile. 1107, 21 EPD 30,419 (E.D. the issue is non-CDP, and the Office of Legal Counsel, Guidance Division should be contacted.). However, some departments set a minimum age requirement of 20, with the condition that the candidate must be 21 when they were sworn in. In recent years, an increasing number of lawsuits against police officers have been brought to federal . Otherwise stated, if the allegation is that women as a class are, based on statistics, more frequently overweight than men, this charge should be dismissed in such a manner as to preserve the charging parties' appeal rights, but without further investigation. found that many of the employer proffered justifications for imposing minimum height requirements were not adequate to establish a business necessity defense. 76-47, CCH Employment Practices Guide 6635, where adverse impact was alleged, the Commission concluded that absent evidence that Blacks as a class, based on a standard height/weight chart, proportionally weigh (See 604, Theories of Discrimination.) The Commission has not issued any decisions on this matter, but an analogy can be drawn from the use of different minimum height requirements in Commission Decision No. 71-1418, CCH EEOC Decisions (1973) 6223, the Commission found, based on national statistics, that a minimum 5'5" height requirement disproportionately excluded large numbers of women and Hispanics. 80-5 (unpublished), the Commission found that there was not enough statistical data available to conclude that Black females, in contrast to White females whose weight is distributed differently, are disproportionately Example (1) - Prison Correctional Counselors - In Dothard v. Rawlinson, supra, the Supreme Court found that applying a requirement of minimum height of 5'2" and weight of 120 lbs. Therefore, the BFOQ exception to the Act cannot be relied upon as the basis for automatically excluding all females where strength is HEIGHT MINIMUM MAXIMUM WEIGHT LIMIT ALL AGES ALL AGES 17-20 21-27 28-39 40+ 4' 10" 90 112 115 119 122 4' 11" 92 116 119 123 126 5' 0" 94 120 123 127 . Therefore, a national statistical pool, as opposed to an actual applicant pool, should be used for exception. (Whether or not adverse impact can be found in this situation is whether Black or Hispanic females can establish that they as a class weigh proportionally more than White females must remain non-CDP. statistically more females than males exceed the permissible maximum weight limit. My junior year in high school I figured that I wasn't going to get any taller than the 5'6" I eventually became. discrimination. Rawlinson, supra, however, agreed with the Commission's position and used national statistics to find that minimum height and weight requirements were discriminatory and that unsupported assertions about strength were inadequate to minimum weight standards for different group or class members because of their protected status or nonuniform application of the same minimum weight standard can, absent a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for its use, result in prohibited A healthy and fit lifestyle is an essential element of being a police officer. This means that, except in rare instances, charging parties attempting to challenge height and weight requirements do not have to show an adverse impact on their protected group or class by use of actual applicant flow or selection data. Air Line Pilots Ass'n. In lieu of proportional, minimum, height/weight standards or size as a basis for screening applicants, employers also may attempt to rely on various physical ability or agility tests. Officers for Justice v. Civil Service Commission, 335 F. Supp. Even though national statistics are used, 4(D) of the UGESP recognizes that there can still be evidence of adverse impact, often with very large numbers since a national pool is used, based on smaller percentage evidence of adverse impact, the height and weight components must nonetheless be separately evaluated for evidence of adverse impact. CPs, female and Hispanic rejected job applicants, filed charges alleging that their rejections, based on failure to meet the minimum height requirement, were discriminatory because their 763, 6 EPD 8930 (D.C. D.C. 1973) (other issues, but not this issue, were appealed), when faced with a maximum height requirement, concluded that different maximum height strength necessary to successfully perform the job. because the physical ability/agility test disproportionately excludes large numbers of women and is not justified by business necessity. Therefore, absent a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason, discrimination can result from the imposition of different maximum height standards or no maximum height 79-25, CCH Employment Practices Guide 6752, the Commission found that a prima facie case of sex discrimination based on application of minimum height requirements was not rebutted by evidence that Indeed, the sandbag up a flight of stairs and scale a 14-foot log wall. the strength necessary to perform the job in order to prove a business necessity defense. R's employ even though females constituted the largest percentage of potential employees in the SMSA from which R recruited. (b) The following information should be secured in documentary form, where available, from the respondent: (1) A written policy statement, or statement of practices involving use of height and weight requirements; (2) A breakdown of the employer's workforce showing protected Title VII status as it relates to use of height and weight requirements; (3) A statement of reasons or justifications for, or defenses to, use of height and weight requirements as they relate to actual job duties performed; (4) A determination of what the justification is based on, i.e., an outside evaluation, subjective assertions, observations of employees' job performance, etc. and minorities have been disproportionately excluded. Then it was 5 feet, 6; since 1980, it has been 5 feet; who concocted those numbers, and on what criteria? likely be disproportionately excluded as compared to their actual numbers in the population. The first female police officer. Therefore, imposing different Thereafter, to ultimately prevail, the charging party would have to show the availability of less restrictive alternatives. Since this is not a trait peculiar to females as a matter of law, or which in any event would be entitled to protection under Title VII, and since no other basis exists for concluding that 1980).). According to CP, Black females, because of a trait peculiar to their race and not subject to their personal control, R felt that overweight males were more acceptable to its customers than overweight females. Along these lines, the issue that the EOS might encounter is an assertion that, since weight is not an immutable characteristic, it is permissible to discriminate based on weight. suggested that, even if the quality was found to be job related, a validated test which directly measures strength could be devised and adopted. (See Jarrell and Gerdom which are cited below.) 1980); Blake v. City of Los Angeles, 595 F.2d 1367, 19 EPD 9251 (9th Cir. (See Example 4 below and Commission Decisions in 621.5(e).) for males, was discriminatory. A slightly smaller range is not acceptable. 701 et seq. Therefore, R is discriminating by nonuniform application of its minimum height policy. 7601 (5th Cir. Va. 1977), aff'd per curiam, 577 F.2d 869, 17 EPD 8373 (4th Cir. prima facie case without a showing of discriminatory intent. The Physical Ability Test consists of three subtests; sit-ups, push-ups and the 1.5 mile run. In the case of applicants from ST and races such as Gorkhas, Garhwalis, Assamese, Kumaonis, Nagaland Tribals, and others, the minimum height is relaxable to 145 cm for women. A 5'7" discrimination by showing that the particular physical ability tests disproportionately excluded a protected group or class from employment, the burden shifts to the respondent to show that the requirements are a business necessity and bear a On the other hand, and by way of contrast, charges which allege disproportionate exclusion of protected group or class members because their group or class weighs proportionally more than other groups or classes based on a nonchangeable, 79-19, CCH Employment Practices Guide 6749, a male, 5'6" tall, challenged the application of the minimum, 5'5" female and 5'9" male, height requirement and alleged that if he were a female he could have qualified In some cases, There were no female bus drivers in Additionally, as height or weight problems in the extreme may potentially be a handicap issue, charging parties or potential charging parties should be advised of their right to file a complaint under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. Height and weight requirements for necessary job performance The U.S. Supreme Court case of Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977) revolved around what police candidate issue? CP, a 6'6" Black candidate for a pilot trainee position, alleges that he was rejected, not because he exceeded the maximum height, but For example, even though there When law enforcement agencies started recruiting women and racial/ethnic minorities for general police service, the height requirements had to go, as there just aren't a lot of women and some minorities who are over 59. very charts which are standard, and which are relied on to establish height/weight in proportion to body size contain different permissible limits for men and women in recognition of the physiological differences between the two groups. According to CP, similarly situated White candidates for pilot trainee positions were accepted, even though they exceeded the maximum height. According to CPs, the standard height/weight charts are based on and reflect height and weight measurements of White females since they constitute the majority of the population, not Black females who Absent such a showing, a prima facie case is not established. In Commission Decision No. concerned with public preference in such jobs, the males and females are similarly situated. study showing that taller police officers are assaulted less, have less probability of being injured, receive fewer complaints, and have fewer auto accidents. CPs argue that the standard charts fail for that reason to consider that Black females have a different body structure, physiology, and different proportional height/weight measurements than White females. The respondent's contention that it could not otherwise readily transfer people to different positions unless the minimum height requirement was maintained, since some positions require employees of a certain techniques, the EOS should consult 602, How to Investigate. For a thorough discussion of these and similar problems, the EOS should consult 610, Adverse Impact in the Selection Process; and the Uniform Guidelines on Employee (since Asian women are presumably not as tall as American women) may not be applicable. She alleged in her class action suit that the minimum requirements 604.) In the 1977 Dothard v. Rawlinson case, the plaintiffs showed that the height and weight requirements excluded more than 40 percent of women and less than 10 percent of men. Example (1) - R, police force, has a maximum height requirement of 6'5". validate a test that measures strength directly. 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