What is the difference between adverse impact and disparate treatment?

Adverse impact provides nonneutral discriminatory effects on a protected group, whereas disparate treatment is unseen discrimination of an employment policy that ° produces negative consequences.

Disparate treatment is when a discriminatory effect impacts a protected group but is unintentional, whereas adverse impact is blatantly discriminating against a protected class.

Adverse impact provides a level of discrimination that is intentional and causes harm to protected groups, while disparate treatment relates to employer practices that : seem to be nondiscriminatory but cause negative effects for protected groups.

Disparate treatment is intentional discrimination based on protected characteristics, while adverse impact is where employment practices appear neutral but have adiscriminatory effect.