This becomes an issue if each department is not consistent with each other. Recently at an American university a department was banned for new tenure positions

This becomes an issue if each department is not consistent with each other. Recently at an American university a department was banned for new tenure positions for two years after it was found that their hiring process differed from the university's as a whole, in a way that could get the university as a whole into legal trouble. https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-action-after-faculty-hiring-process-inappropriately-used-race-as-a-factor/ https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/31/university-takes-... Getting ahead of it with a universal policy to set a minimum bar doesn't sound like the worst idea.