In the Context of Employment Discrimination, Which of the Following

question 113

Multiple Choice

In the context of employment discrimination, which of the following is a difference between disparate treatment and adverse impact?

• A) Unlike adverse impact, disparate treatment can be calculated by dividing the decision rate for a protected group of people by the decision rate for a nonprotected group.
• B) Unlike disparate impact, adverse impact is unintentional discrimination.
• C) Violation of the four-fifths rule is not an automatic indication of disparate treatment, whereas violation of the four-fifths rule is an automatic indication of adverse impact.
• D) Disparate treatment occurs when members of an ethnic group are harmed because they are hired or promoted at substantially lower rates than others, whereas adverse impact occurs when people are not given the same hiring opportunities as other employees because of their race and age.

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