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Unhappy with the Department of Labor (DOL) for failing to expedite an investigation of hiring practices at the Kennedy School of Government, a nationwide women's organization this week said it will probably file a complaint against DOL if the department doesn't speed things up. Officials at the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), which last fall charged the K-School with ignoring federal affirmative action codes, have said the unexpected delay in DOL's investigation stems from federal cutbacks in the number of investigators the department may hire and from a shuffling of department personnel earlier this year...
Charging the K-School with falsifying information in its report to DOL on hiring, WEAL told Labor officials the K-School had labeled two Black women research associates in the report as "instructional," though they'd never taught at the school. WEAL's amended complaint alleges the school "misreported" the data to boost its low percentages of women and minority faculty...
...School officials denied the charge, explaining they'd reported the women as non-teaching faculty, a label DOL sources say is accurate under departmental guidelines. They also rejected a WEAL charge that the school's five reported "firm offers" to women of faculty posts were "not firm...
...WEAL sources continued to maintain the unreleased report is inaccurate and that not all of the five candidates were given tempting offers by the school--and said DOL's preliminary findings, which Labor sources say are due in about a month but which will not be made public, will bear out their charges...
...first time, WEAL's national leadership joined the fray, with national president Carol B. Grossman calling the K-School "hard-pressed" to back up its case and saying she expects DOL to support WEAL's charges...