SAME-ACTOR INFERENCE

same-actor inference.Employment law. The doctrine that when an employee is hired and fired

by the same person, and the termination occurs a reasonably short time after the hiring, the

termination will be presumed not to be based on a discriminatory reason. [Cases: Civil Rights

1534. C.J.S. Civil Rights §§ 168–169.] [Blacks Law 8^th]