Disparity

disparate impact

disparate impact : an unnecessary discriminatory effect on a protected class caused by a practice or policy that appears to be nondiscriminatory compare bona fide occupational qualification, disparate treatment ...

disparate treatment

disparate treatment : treatment of an individual (as an employee or prospective juror) that is less favorable than treatment of others for discriminatory reasons (as race, religion, national origin, sex, or disability) compare bona fide occupational qualification, disparate impact ...

Inequality difference in age rank condition or excellence dissimilitude followed by between in of as to etc as disparity in or of years a disparity as to color...

Gypsy moth

A tussock moth Lymantria dispar or Porthetria dispar or Ocneria dispar native of the Old World but accidentally introduced into eastern Massachusetts about 1869 where its caterpillars have done great damage to fruit shade and forest trees of many kinds The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown the female white and larger than the male In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule The caterpillars when full grown have a grayish mottled appearance with blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercles on the posterior part of the body all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August The eggs are laid on tree trunks rocks etc and hatch in the spring...

bona fide occupational qualification

bona fide occupational qualification : a requirement (as relating to sex, religion, national origin, or age) for a particular job that does not violate the constitutional bans on discrimination see also Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Age Discrimination in Employment Act in the Important Laws section equal employment opportunity commission in the Important Agencies section amendment xiv to the Constitution in the back matter compare disparate impact, disparate treatment ...

Disparate

Unequal dissimilar separate...

Disparates

Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other...

Imparity

Inequality disparity disproportion difference of degree rank excellence number etc...

Social justice

Social justice, the concept of social justice has now become such an integral part of industrial law that it would be ideal for any party to suggest that industrial adjudication can or should ignore the claims of social justice in dealing with industrial disputes. The concept of social justice is not narrow, or onesided, or pedantic, and is not con-fined to industrial adjudication alone. Its sweep is comprehensive. It is founded on the basic ideal to socio-economic equality and its aim is to assist the removal of socio-economic disparities and in-equalities; nevertheless, in dealing with industrial matters, it does not adopt a doctrinaire approach and refuses to yield blindly to abstract notions, but adopts a realistic and pragmatic approach. It, therefore, endeavours to resolve the competing claims of employers and employees by finding a solution which is just and fair to both parties with the object of establishing harmony between capital and labour, and good relationship, J.K. Cotto...

Variance

Variance, difference between the statements in a pleading and the evidence adduced in proof thereof. See Stephen on Pleading.The Courts are now very liberal in permitting variances in proceedings to be amended, especially where parties will suffer no prejudice. See AMENDMENT.A difference or disparity between two statements or documents that ought to agree especially in criminal procedure; a difference between allegations in a charging instrument and the proof actually produced at trial, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1551....

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