Oversight Hearings on Federal Enforcement of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - Discrimination in employment |
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706 agencies Administration and Management Affirmative Action Plan Affirmative Action Program Affirmative Action Representatives analysis Asian Americans assigned Assistant director administration Attorney AUGUSTUS F BENITEZ BUCHANAN Chairman charging parties Chicano Civil Rights Directors Civil Service Commission Commission's committee complaints CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Contract Compliance contractors Counsel decrees Department Division EEOC effective efforts employees employment discrimination enforcement equal employment opportunity Equal opportunity specialist evaluation Executive Order Executive Order 11246 Federal filed Fiscal Year 1975 FLEMMING Government guidelines handicapped persons HAWKINS Headquarters higher education implementation indicated investigation issue Labor LIBRARY OF CONGRESS litigation centers LOWELL W ment minorities and women monitoring Native Americans Office for Civil percent performance PERRY personnel portunity positions problem procedures promotion question recommendation Regional Civil Rights Regional Offices request responsibility Secretary MATHEWS seniority SIBAL Subcommittee on Equal supervisors tion title VII workers
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Page 30 - Nothing said or done during and as a part of such informal endeavors may be made public by the Commission, its officers or employees, or used as evidence in a subsequent proceeding without the written consent of the persons concerned.
Page 45 - Army, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Department of Commerce, the Veterans' Administration, the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the General Services Administration.
Page 105 - Federal programs, to ensure compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
Page 3 - The Act proscribes not only overt discrimination but also practices that are fair in form, but discriminatory in operation. The touchstone is business necessity. If an employment practice which operates to exclude Negroes cannot be shown to be related to job performance, the practice is prohibited.
Page 120 - ... 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 39 - 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 108 - It is the policy of the Government of the United States to provide equal opportunity in Federal employment for all...
Page 51 - 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 64 - Do you feel that we have to find a way to obtain commitment on the part of this Government and a commitment on the part of people to get this job done, if it is to be done? Mr. FLEMMING. Permit me to address myself to the first part of your question. There is no doubt in my mind but that the Federal Government, as an employer, should set the right kind of an example. I believe in. the basic concepts underlying the civil service system. But the civil service system is not an end in itself, it is a...
Page 82 - ... that I realized that the areas you are charged to investigate are complex, sensitive, and of great concern, and that I was not going to avoid those discussions or look for convenient excuses to send up. The second comment I would like to make, is that it seems to me that in addition to the question that we wished to address, the...