Fair Employment Council of Greater Washington

Following the success of the Fair Housing Council, the Fair Employment Council of Greater Washington was formed in 1990 to apply the same testing methods to workplace investigations. Without Supreme Court precedent affirming tester standing in employment contexts, the Council had to innovate in order to enforce workplace non-discrimination protections. Ultimately, the Council’s matched-pair tests revealed widespread, illegal discrimination in companies’ hiring processes and its “Getting a Job is a Job” program provided D.C. high school students with job-seeking skills.