Serious question: If it's against the law to have a disproportionate amount of a certain group employed (or paid a certain way), but it's also against the law

Serious question: If it's against the law to have a disproportionate amount of a certain group employed (or paid a certain way), but it's also against the law to discriminate in the hiring process (and in the termination process), how is a company like this supposed to comply? * Hire more of x group - it's illegal because you'd be discriminating against a group to meet the employment quota * Fire x group to equalize the amount of people working - it's illegal because you're targeting a specific group of people to fire There doesn't seem to be any way to meet these requirements without some form of discrimination at some step of the way. Does the government have "legalized discrimination" policies to allow companies to become compliant?