Core Chocolate Company, a major producer of specialty chocolate sold throughout
ID: 2532982 • Letter: C
Question
Core Chocolate Company, a major producer of specialty chocolate sold throughout the United States, employs one hundred workers at its principal processing plant. The plant is located in Heartland Corners, which has a population that is 50 percent white and 25 percent African American, with the balance Hispanic American, Asian American, and others. Core requires a high school diploma as a condition of employment for its cleaning crew. Three-fourths of the white population completed high school, compared with only one-fourth of those in the minority groups. Core has an all-white cleaning crew. Has Core violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Explain.
Explanation / Answer
No, Core has not violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the company has not conditioned rational employment but the essential educational requirement of the job is the only condition of employment for its cleaning crew. As the plant is located in Heartland Corners, where major population is of white and most of white population only able to complete the high school education, so final cleaning crew includes only the white emplyees.
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