Four Kinds of Evidence

For each Discipline/Denial Incident (e.g. failure to hire or rent, termination or eviction, denied benefits) alleged in the complaint, the Investigator must collect four kinds of evidence:

• Comparative
• Direct
  • A statement, verbal or written, made by the decision maker or incident doer which indicates, directly or indirectly, a basis prejudice or bias.
• Pattern
  • How other people who share complainant's basis have been treated by the decision maker or incident doer. In other words, has the incident doer discriminated against other basis persons?
• Statistics
  • In a "failure to hire" case, ICRC investigators compare the basis representation percentage in respondent company's workforce with the basis percentage in the relevant labor market. For example, if complainant is alleging sex discrimination and complainant is female, then the investigator would compare the percentage of females in respondent's workforce with the percentage of females in the area labor pool.
  • In a "termination" case, the investigator would compare the percentage of basis persons in the incident doer's work unit with the percentage of basis persons terminated by the doer. For example, if complainant is alleging sex discrimination and complainant is female, then the investigator would compare the percentage of people who are female who have worked for the doer with the percentage of people who have been terminated by the doer who are female.

For each Special Incident alleged in the complaint, the Investigator must collect sufficient information to resolve the special issues.

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