Word: eeoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, last week filed a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunities Employment Commission (EEOC) charging that Harvard discriminated against her on the basis of race...
...committee's rejection of Southern, along with it's refusal to grant her an extension, prompted Wright to file a complaint with the EEOC and consider suing the University, Winston D. Kendall, Wright's lawyer, said this week. He added that Wright is keeping her original choice of Southern...
...thousands who have invoked the act. Detroit Lawyer V. Paul Donnelly, who has nearly 300 such cases pending in 35 states, sees this job struggle as the "civil rights movement of the '80s." Last year the number of complaints cascading into the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) doubled, to 8,000; similar state and local agencies probably received another 8,000. Under the federal law, all complainants must start at the EEOC, which tries to solve problems without filing lawsuits. Many, however, are put off by the commission's 4,000-case backlog and its informal system...
...middle-aged character in a long-running series. Courts have also upheld age ceilings where public safety is at stake, as in the case of bus drivers. Even in such exceptions, deciding at what age to draw the line is a problem. Dan Williams, a senior attorney at EEOC, predicts that ceilings set by municipalities for police and fire fighters will lead to major legal battles...
...admit to them. In fact, Levine never explained why his current research grant is to study the cultural history of the depression and not specifically related to Afro-American Studies. Neither did we think that members of the Ad Hoc Committee were good "third party" sources. According to the EEOC findings against Harvard the Ad Hoc Committee, which reviewed Ephraim Isaac for tenure in 1975, was purposely biased against Isaac by University officials...