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District Court Refuses to Disrupt Employer's Hiring Decision

By Sid Steinberg
August 02, 2015

Discrimination claims based upon an employer's failure to promote or hire remain among the more difficult claims for employees. As discussed in the recent case of Nunn v. NHS Human Services, No. 13-cv-3140, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74176 (E.D. Pa. June 9, 2015), in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, employees seeking to demonstrate discriminatory animus must demonstrate both comparable qualifications to the selected candidate and pretext in the decision-making process.

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