Adverse impact

Adverse impact

This occurs where employment, promotion or recruitment practices have a discriminatory effect on people from groups who have been historically discriminated against. An “inference of adverse impact” may be cited by government where an employer unfairly exhibits these practices but has failed to capture data to monitor it.

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