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EMPLOYMENT-LAW5 MIN READ

Neutral Policies Can Still Create Disparate Impact

Apply the disparate impact framework to a realistic workplace decision.

The practical move is to slow the first answer down just enough to see neutral rule, exclusion pattern, job necessity, and less discriminatory alternative. What the framework teaches mini_lecture is practical because it gives managers a decision method before pressure turns into improvisation. The working mechanism is neutral rule, exclusion pattern, job necessity, and less discriminatory alternative. That sequence separates the human concern from the legal category, then separates the legal category from the next process step. It keeps the organization from minimizing a protected issue, overpromising an outcome, or solving a short-term staffing problem by creating long-term evidence risk.…

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