A Black man has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a hotel in Detroit, Michigan, alleging the hotel only offered him a job interview after he changed the name on his resume, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by CNN.

Dwight Jackson filed the lawsuit against the Shinola Hotel on July 3, alleging he was denied a job when he applied as “Dwight Jackson,” but later offered an interview when he changed his name to “John Jebrowski.”

The lawsuit alleges Jackson was denied a job in “violation of Michigan Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act.”

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    5 months ago

    “It’s not malicious intent”

    Explains how his companies entire hiring strategy it openly malicious, lol

    • UmeU@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      9
      ·
      5 months ago

      How is ‘always accepting resumes’ malicious? Put your resume in and move on, I’ll call you if I need you, the world doesn’t owe you anything.

      If you really wanted a job, be persistent and eventually someone will hire you, but not if you walk around with a huge chip on your shoulder hating on every small business trying to make it in the late stages of capitalism.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        5 months ago

        I bet you’d bitch if you went through the effort of setting up an interview with somebody and then you never hear from them again because they’re not actually looking for a job right now. Don’t hide your clown show behind legitimate small businesses who don’t play games.

        • UmeU@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          5
          ·
          5 months ago

          I don’t understand… do you think we are interviewing with no intent of hiring? How would that make any sense?

          All we are doing is accepting resumes and letting people know that when we need someone we will call the resumes. We tell people when they put the applicant in that we aren’t actively hiring.

            • UmeU@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              5 months ago

              If they really want to work there, basically they have to get in line. It may be 6 months or a year before we call because we don’t have very much turnover.