Hearing before the United States Commission on Civil Rights: age discrimination in Federally-assisted programs : hearing held in Washington, D.C., September 26-28, 1977

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Page 1 - If the Commission determines that evidence or testimony at any hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person, it shall receive such evidence or testimony or summary of such evidence or testimony in executive session. The Commission shall afford any person defamed, degraded, or incriminated by such evidence or testimony...
Page 1 - ... (d) The Chairman or Acting Chairman may punish breaches of order and decorum and unprofessional ethics on the part of counsel, by censure and exclusion from the hearings. (e) If the Commission determines that evidence or testimony at any hearing may tend to defame, degrade, or incriminate any person...
Page 55 - Labor is charged, among other things, with administering and enforcing statutes designed to advance the public interest by promoting the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, improving their working conditions, and advancing their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 327 - Counsel for the American Association of Retired Persons and the National Retired Teachers Association.
Page 18 - USC 200d1 ) , which provides that no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, or be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...
Page 57 - ... provisions have been meshed into the employment and training system to assure that in carrying out their responsibilities prime sponsors do not neglect the needs of significant groups in the mainstream of economic life. In 1974, Congress amended CETA to require that grants, contracts, and agreements specifically provide that no person with responsibilities under the act will discriminate in the operation of such program on the basis of age; thus adding age to the existing categories of race,...
Page 245 - I would ask that it be inserted in the record at this point, so it will be available to the committee in its entirety.

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