Michael and Mohammad graduated from the same pilot training institute and applied for a job as a trainee pilot at a private American airline. Despite both having similar profiles, Michael was hired but Mohammad was not, and the airline continued to look for other potential trainee pilots. In this case, Mohammad is a possible victim of:

a. sexual harassment

b. Quid pro quo harassment

c. Disparate treatment

d. Disparate impact

e. Racial discrimination

The correct answer is c. Disparate treatment.

Explanation:

In an unequal treatment, the worker seeks to demonstrate the reason for the employer's discrimination. An unequal impact claim does not require proof of intentional discrimination, but the proof that the employer uses employment practices that are apparently neutral in their treatment of different groups but in fact fall harder on a group that in another and cannot be justified as a necessity imposed by the business.