Word: eeoc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conciliation. The Libbey-Owens-Ford case was started by Mrs. Nancy Raitz, 35, a former $2.50-an-hour assembler. Last year she and 32 other female employees complained to the EEOC. The company argued that it was merely obeying the state law. When the commission's conciliation attempts failed, it recommended that the Justice Department bring a full-scale court test...
Emerging standards for women's rights are likely to leave some jobs in which employers can insist on sex as a bona fide occupational qualification. Though telephone companies have been obliged to hire male operators and bars to take on female bartenders, the EEOC has ruled that actresses can still monopolize female roles-and presumably, jobs as topless dancers. Eventually, says University of New Mexico Law Professor Leo Kanowitz, the courts may have to decide such issues as whether, if women have equal rights, they also have equal liability to be drafted...
...Power and Light, employs only 4.5 per cent black employees in an area where 50 per cent of the population is black. Investigations of two other Middle South subsidiaries-Arkansas Power and Light and Louisiana Power and Light-conducted by the Equal Opportunity Commission, revealed similar employment practices. One EEOC official said, in releasing the employment figures, "it is difficult for us to avoid the conclusion that the companies are guilty of severe discrimination against Negro employees...
...Harvard sell its stock but that it use its prestige to change the policies of the company. Bennett sits on the Board of Directors of Middle South and Harvard owns five per cent of the company's stock. Yet the response of Harvard financial experts was to label the EEOC employment figures "a one-sided smear attack...
...hates to become cynical about every corporate pronouncement, but there are strong pressures in that direction. Despite the company's pledges of good faith, the EEOC reports that Middle South has failed several times to come through with reports or plans requested by the commission...