Oversight Hearings on Federal Enforcement of Equal Opportunity Laws: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities of ..., 94-1 .... |
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706 agencies Administration and Management Affirmative Action Plan Affirmative Action Program Asian Americans assigned Attorney AUGUSTUS F backlog BENITEZ BUCHANAN certainly Chairman charging parties Chicano Civil Rights Commission Civil Service Commission Commission's committee complaints conciliation agreements consent decree Contract Compliance Coordinating Council Counsel court Department district offices Division EEOC effective efforts employees employment discrimination Employment Opportunity Commission employment practices equal employment opportunity evaluation Executive Order Executive Order 11246 fiscal year 1975 FLEMMING Government guidelines HAWKINS Headquarters hearing higher education implementation increased indicated individual investigation issue Labor litigation centers Lowell Perry LOWELL W ment minorities and women monitoring Native Americans Office for Civil percent PERRY personnel portunity positions problem procedures promotion question request responsibility result Secretary MATHEWS September 22 SIBAL staff statement steel industry Subcommittee on Equal supervisors Thank tion title VII workers
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Page 116 - ... improved public service, (B) dollar savings, (C) the building and retention of a permanent cadre of skilled and efficient Government employees, well abreast of scientific, professional, technical, and management developments both in and out of Government...
Page 35 - Mr. Chairman, I very much appreciate the opportunity to testify before your subcommittee today on an issue of great concern to me and to many of my constituents.
Page 52 - Commission believes that the only way to attack this problem is to radically alter our present piecemeal approach to resolving complaints of employment discrimination and monitoring compliance, and to substitute a structure capable of ending overt and systemic discrimination. In that connection, the Commission has made the following recommendations : A National Employment Rights Board should be established which is vested with the authority for enforcing one Federal statute protecting citizens from...
Page 69 - I did not hire him because of his handicap and I don't think anyone else would either." Because of situations like this, more than 60 of my colleagues have joined me in cosponsoring a bill which would include physically disabled individuals under the equal employment opportunity provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Since introducing the bill, I have received supporting letters from all across the Nation. I would like to read you an excerpt from one letter written by a rehabilitation counselor....
Page 104 - It is the policy of the Government of the United States to provide equal opportunity in Federal employment for all...
Page 47 - Moreover, there is inadequate sharing of information, almost no joint setting of investigative or enforcement priorities, and little crossfertilization of ideas and strategies at the regional level. This fragmented administrative picture has resulted in duplication of effort, inconsistent findings, and a loss of public faith in the objectivity and efficiency of the program.
Page 49 - ... However, they are usually thinking of "identical" work. Greater resocialization effort needs to be put into placing a higher value on "women's work." (4) Greater enforcement effort on the part of federal agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor, and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance. This, by necessity, means a greater monetary commitment by the federal government to provide the staff necessary for investigation...
Page 2 - Powell to the Honorable Carl Albert, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Honorable James O.
Page 106 - Act of 1 934, as amended; —titles VI and XVI of the Public Health Service Act; — the nondiscrimination provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981; —section 307(a) of the Family Violence Prevention and Services...