Delicious Supermarkets currently has 34 stores in eight states. It employs 812 workers. Recently, it adopted an affirmative action program in response to complaints from its 354 minority employees, none of whom hold a store manager or assistant store manager position. The program stipulates that at least 50% of the vacant assistant manager positions be offered to qualified minority candidates. Luke Simpson, who has superior qualifications in comparison to the minority candidates who were promoted, claims the program is actually a quota, which smacks of reverse discrimination. How should Luke be advised? Is this program a quota?