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
Overt disparate treatment would be the mistreatment of any person based on their protected class. For example, if an employer mistreats an employee because of his or her race, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. This type of treatment is illegal under The United States Civil Rights Act.
discrimination is the biggest thing
disparate
The impact is called the Affirmative action.
(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."