What are the limitations of disparate impact statistics as indicators of potential staffing discrimination?
Disparate impact is the effect of a work condition or policy that was not necessarily intended to discriminate. Disparate treatment is explicit discrimination against someone because of their protected class. What are the limitations of disparate impact statistics as indicators of potential staffing discrimination?
Robert Bornholz has written: 'Measuring disparate impacts and extending disparate impact doctrine to organ transplantation' -- subject(s): Discrimination in medical care, Transplantation of organs, tissues
to prove discrimination
In 1980's, the supreme court made the ruling that an employer is liable for race discrimination where any part of its selection process, such as an examination, has a disparate impact on black applicants or employees.
Yes, disparate treatment is the easiest type of lending discrimination for regulators to prove because it involves intentional discrimination based on a protected characteristic. Lenders may have a harder time defending against this type of discrimination as it is more straightforward to demonstrate.
disparate treatment based on protected status, race, sex, national origin, religion that caused injury to a person
discrimination is the biggest thing
The impact is called the Affirmative action.
disparate
(The adjective disparate means distinct, unlike, unique, or dissimilar.)"The people were too disparate to be friends.""The doctors prescribed disparate treatments for the patient, none of them effective."
This is called "disparate impact" and occurs when a seemingly innocuous employment practice has the affect of disproportionately rejecting a protected class, as you noted in your question. Employers can defend themselves against disparate impact claims if they can demonstrate that the requirement is a bona fide occupational qualification.