As a HR Professional you must be familiar with several different lawsuits and their affect on human resource practices today. This adverse impact lawsuit determined that discrimination need not be deliberate or observable to be real. Employees were segregated by race and were allowed to work only in the lowest paid position. What lawsuit is described?

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The Griggs versus Duke Power case in 1971 established the principle of adverse impact, determining that employment practices could be considered discriminatory if they disproportionately affected a particular group, even if there was no intent to discriminate.

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