How can employer reduce risk associated with disparate

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Assignment:

Read Connecticut Firefighters Settle Reverse Discrimination Suit For $2 Million for an example of a promotion process designed to avoid liability for disparate impact, ending in committing disparate treatment discrimination. Review the site, and in the discussion forum, answer the following questions:

1. What is the real lesson here?

2. Knowing that people tend to associate with others like themselves, how can an employer reduce the risk associated with disparate impact?

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