Oversight Review of the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and Affirmative Action Programs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, September 18, 1985 |
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... quotas . There is no question that we have an obligation to afford the disadvantaged a chance to fully share in the economic opportu- nities of this country . The administration fully supports the con- cept that firms which do business ...
... quotas . There is no question that we have an obligation to afford the disadvantaged a chance to fully share in the economic opportu- nities of this country . The administration fully supports the con- cept that firms which do business ...
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... quotas . There is no question that we have an obligation to afford the disadvantaged a chance to fully share in the economic opportunities of this country . The Administration fully supports the concept that firms which do business with ...
... quotas . There is no question that we have an obligation to afford the disadvantaged a chance to fully share in the economic opportunities of this country . The Administration fully supports the concept that firms which do business with ...
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... 11246 . I do support that . It is law . Mr. HAYES . Would you agree that regulations require flexible goals and not quotas ? Mr. COOPER . Would you mind rephrasing that ? Mr. HAYES . Would you agree that current regulations require 22.
... 11246 . I do support that . It is law . Mr. HAYES . Would you agree that regulations require flexible goals and not quotas ? Mr. COOPER . Would you mind rephrasing that ? Mr. HAYES . Would you agree that current regulations require 22.
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... quotas ? Mr. COOPER . With all due respect , could I ask your indulgence in terms of refraining from answering that question at this time ? Mr. HAYES . I certainly want to grant you time to check it out and respond , but it is a ...
... quotas ? Mr. COOPER . With all due respect , could I ask your indulgence in terms of refraining from answering that question at this time ? Mr. HAYES . I certainly want to grant you time to check it out and respond , but it is a ...
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... quotas . I doubt if anyone on this committee - I don't think anyone on this committee , and I doubt if any of our witnesses really are advocates of the rigid quotas . The use of this word is very , very dangerous and mislead- ing as ...
... quotas . I doubt if anyone on this committee - I don't think anyone on this committee , and I doubt if any of our witnesses really are advocates of the rigid quotas . The use of this word is very , very dangerous and mislead- ing as ...
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administration's affirmative action plans affirmative action programs affirmative action requirements agency Albemarle Paper Co amended American Jewish Committee BOOKBINDER Chairman Clarence Thomas COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL compliance reviews Contract Compliance Programs Department of Labor EEOC eliminate employers employment discrimination employment practices enforcement equal employment opportunity equal opportunity Executive Order 11246 Executive Order program faith effort Federal Contract Compliance federal contractors Federal Government goals and timetables government contractors guidelines GUNDERSON HAYES hiring and promotion Hispanics impact implementation increased issue LAWYERS MARTINEZ measure MEISINGER ment minorities and women NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL nondiscrimination numerical goals OFCCP Office of Federal past discrimination percent Philadelphia Plan President prohibited proposed Executive Order quotas race racial regulations remedies Report reverse discrimination RIGHTS UNDER LAW standards statistical evidence Subcommittee supra note Supreme Court testimony Thank tion Title VII UGESP white males women and minorities Women Employed workers workforce
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Page 104 - In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race.
Page 189 - HR 700 before the Committee on Education and Labor and the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 99th Congress, 1st Sess., 299-300 (March 7, 1985).
Page 86 - Goals may not be rigid and inflexible quotas which must be met, but must be targets reasonably attainable by means of applying every good faith effort to make all aspects of the entire affirmative action program work.
Page 77 - What we have said may require classification by race. That is something which the Constitution usually forbids, not because it is inevitably an impermissible classification, but because it is one which usually, to our national shame, has been drawn for the purpose of maintaining racial inequality. Where it is drawn for the purpose of achieving equality it will be allowed, and to the extent it is necessary to avoid unequal treatment by race, it will be required.
Page 34 - When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."3 "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things.
Page 210 - HUD and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs of the Department of Labor.
Page 74 - The remedy for such segregation may be administratively awkward, inconvenient and even bizarre in some situations and may impose burdens on some; but all awkwardness and inconvenience cannot be avoided in the interim period when remedial adjustments are being made to eliminate the dual school systems.
Page 104 - In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 US 265, 407 (1978...
Page 76 - Numerical objectives may be the only feasible mechanism for defining with any clarity the obligation of federal contractors to move employment practices in the direction of true neutrality.