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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... issued by the OFCCP , under Executive Order No. 11246 , require compliance reviews and investigations of complaints in order to ensure nondiscrimination in the work practices of the contractors . Statistical measures are tools used to ...
... issued by the OFCCP , under Executive Order No. 11246 , require compliance reviews and investigations of complaints in order to ensure nondiscrimination in the work practices of the contractors . Statistical measures are tools used to ...
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... Issued in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson , Executive Order 11246 , as amended , is the latest in a long line of executive orders , dating to the Roosevelt Era , to eliminate employment discrimination practiced by Federal government ...
... Issued in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson , Executive Order 11246 , as amended , is the latest in a long line of executive orders , dating to the Roosevelt Era , to eliminate employment discrimination practiced by Federal government ...
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... issuance of Executive Order 11246 , the Office of Contract Compliance ( OFCC ) was established in the Department of Labor to carry out the Order's enforcement that same year . Then in June of 1975 , the OFCC was merged with the two ...
... issuance of Executive Order 11246 , the Office of Contract Compliance ( OFCC ) was established in the Department of Labor to carry out the Order's enforcement that same year . Then in June of 1975 , the OFCC was merged with the two ...
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... issued in 1965 were not voluntary . In fact , they were mandated . Given the negative attitude of the present temporary personnel at the White House , there is even less reason to believe they will work in 1985 . Besides the practical ...
... issued in 1965 were not voluntary . In fact , they were mandated . Given the negative attitude of the present temporary personnel at the White House , there is even less reason to believe they will work in 1985 . Besides the practical ...
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... issued in 1965 , because the voluntary approach did not work . Given the negative attitude of the present temporary personnel at the White House , there is even less reason to believe they will work in 1985 . Section one of the proposed ...
... issued in 1965 , because the voluntary approach did not work . Given the negative attitude of the present temporary personnel at the White House , there is even less reason to believe they will work in 1985 . Section one of the proposed ...
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administration's affirmative action plans affirmative action programs affirmative action requirements agency Albemarle Paper Co amended American Jewish Committee Chairman Clarence Thomas COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL compliance reviews CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Contract Compliance Programs Department of Labor discriminatory 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 Hispanics impact implementation increased issued Justice Department LAWYERS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MARTINEZ measure MEISINGER ment minorities and women NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL nondiscrimination numerical goals OFCCP Office of Federal percent prepared statement 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 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 205 - 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 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 162 - There is no fixed and firm definition of affirmative action. / would, say that in a general way, affirmative action is anything that you have to do to get results. But this does not necessarily include preferential treatment. The key word here is 'results.
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.
Page 40 - Thus, in establishing the size of his goals and the length of his timetables, the contractor should consider the results which could reasonably be expected from his putting forth every good faith effort to make his overall affirmative action program work.
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.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Page 77 - It is by now well understood, however, that our society cannot be completely color-blind in the short term if we are to have a color-blind society in the long term.
Page 74 - All things being equal, with no history of discrimination, it might well be desirable to assign pupils to schools nearest their homes. But all things are not equal in a system that has been deliberately constructed and maintained to enforce racial segregation.