FAA accused of rejecting 1000 applicants who didn't meet DIVERSITY requirements

Here's a shocking lawsuit that accuses the FAA of throwing out qualified applicants in favor of potential diversity hires. You may want to sit down to read this one. Some of the information might be mentioned in the video above, which is related to this same topic. There's a class action lawsuit and here's some info on it:

A class-action lawsuit by the Mountain States Legal Foundation has found a substantial amount of documents showing discriminatory hiring practices by the Obama-era Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) initiative, which rejected qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race.

 

The lawsuit is led by Adam Laxalt, the Former Nevada Attorney General and co-counsel at Mountain States Legal Foundation. If it succeeds, it could set a new precedent and force companies and government agencies to hire employees based on skills, eliminating diversity quotas.

 

Who was wronged?

The lawsuit alleges that the FAA turned away more than 1,000 qualified air traffic controller applicants. These applicants passed the normal tests before the Obama-era FAA threw out the test results and the applicants with it.

 

How were they discriminated against?

The FAA was under pressure to diversify the overwhelmingly white workforce and began screening applicants using a biographical test. Only after passing this test were they tested on competency.

 

The lawsuit doesn’t allege incompetent controllers were hired instead of CTI graduates. Instead, it states that the CTI graduates weren’t given the opportunity to demonstrate their competency.