Oversight Hearing on the OFCCP's National Self-monitoring and Reporting System: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, on June 27, 1984, Volume 4

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Page 92 - four-fifths rule. " A selection rate for any race, sex, or ethnic group which is less than four-fifths (4/5) (or eighty percent) of the rate for the group with the highest rate will generally be regarded by the Federal enforcement agencies as evidence of adverse impact, while a greater than four-fifths rate will generally not be regarded by Federal enforcement agencies as evidence of adverse impact.
Page 49 - It requires those companies to take affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees are treated without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the affirmative action provisions of the Vietnam Era Veterans...
Page 24 - Labor such information and assistance as he may require in the performance of his functions under this Order. They are further directed to appoint or designate, from among the agency's personnel, compliance officers. It shall be the duty of such officers to seek compliance with the objectives of this Order by conference, conciliation, mediation, or persuasion.
Page 78 - Augustus F. Hawkins Chairman, Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities Committee on Education and Labor US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr.
Page 1 - HUD and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs of the Department of Labor.
Page 110 - ... forecloses an individual's right to sue or divests federal courts of jurisdiction. In addition, legislative enactments in this area have long evinced a general intent to accord parallel or overlapping remedies against discrimination. In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 USC §2000a et seq., Congress indicated that it considered the policy against discrimination to be of the "highest priority.
Page 31 - Mr. Chairman and Members of this Subcommittee: Thank you for this opportunity to appear today to discuss legislation to reauthorize the Emergency Veterans...
Page 25 - Department, which has compliance responsibility for 15,000 commerical banks, (including 35,000 branches) and 4,700 Savings and Loan Associations, would have required about 110 years to cover its universe using its staff of 22 field specialists. The uneven distribution of resources inherent in the compliance agency system created a further degree of inefficiency in that it restricted the ability of the program to target its efforts on contractors in those industries where the greatest need for compliance...
Page 52 - I would be pleased to respond to any questions you or the Members of the Subcommittee may have.
Page 7 - That discriminates for or against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex...

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