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The definition of disparate treatment encompasses many discriminatory practices and is one major possible cause of negative employee interactions with each other and the work environment as a whole. Because of this, it’s important to know how to recognize examples of disparate treatment.
Disparate treatment is an element of employment discrimination. The term means that an employee was treated differently than other employees similarly situated, though in a legal sense, the different treatment must be based on the individual’s inclusion in a protected class.
As its name suggests, disparate impact discrimination typically occurs when a seemingly neutral workplace practice unduly impacts a protected group — usually unintentionally. A common example often used is a workplace height requirement, which may have a disparate impact on women.
Disparate treatment policies and practices purposely eliminate a protected group of individuals from the hiring process. Requiring all minority applicants to take an employment test while not requiring the same of non-minority applicants is an example of disparate treatment in hiring.
Example of disparate treatment: providing higher pay to men than women for performing the same job (intentional discrimination) Example of disparate impact : hiring more men than women as construction workers as a result of physical height or strength (unintentional discrimination).
The following cases are disparate treatment examples in the categories of Age, Sex and Race Discrimination. Age Discrimination “JPL systemically laid off employees over the age of 40 in favor of retaining younger employees.
Disparate treatment is intentional employment discrimination. For example, testing a particular skill of only certain minority applicants is disparate treatment.
Disparate treatment is a way to prove illegal employment discrimination. An employee who makes a disparate treatment claim alleges that he or she was treated differently than other employees who were similarly situated, and that the difference was based on a protected characteristic.
Examples of disparate treatment discriminatory practices in business include: Hiring on the basis of strength to favor male gender over female gender employees, even if there is no business necessity in the job for heavy lifting.
For example, Guerin uses the example of a Latino call center worker who was let go from their job after the manager “received three complaints in one quarter.” Despite this explanation, the Latino worker feels like he was fired because he is Latino.