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Last fall the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission abandoned the use of goals and timetables to remedy discrimination in U.S. employment practices. But EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas told Congress last week that his agency will resume its use of these antidiscrimination tools. The reason: the Supreme Court last month reaffirmed the legality of goals and timetables in the workplace. Said Thomas: "That's the law of the land, whether I like it or not." Civil rights leaders, however, are still wary that the EEOC will let employers drag their feet on meeting hiring goals. Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership...
...whether Vinson was forced to work in a "sexually hostile environment." The first harassment cases in the late 1970s focused on quid pro quo claims that employees were asked to provide sex to keep their jobs or get better ones. Recently courts have followed the lead of the EEOC and ruled that an atmosphere of sexual aggression, even without economic injury, constitutes harassment...
Since the EEOC issued guidelines in 1980, grievances have risen from 4,272 in 1981 to more than 6,300 in 1984, and courts have become more sensitive to complaints. Last August, for instance, a judge in Buffalo found a polygraph expert guilty of harassing five women by making unnecessary adjustments of a strap across their breasts, touching their thighs and making lewd comments. The court also found the company liable, even though the expert was an outside contractor, because it knew of his actions and did nothing about them. The decision is being appealed...
...Coffin ruled that this was not the case because 27 days before the deadline passed, the MCAD decided not to process the case but to refer it back to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The referral back to the EEOC, which four years later gave Isaac notice of "right to sue," constituted, in Coffin's opinion, MCAD's official termination of administrative proceedings
Critics of affirmative action claim that the statistics mislead. "I think it's debatable whether affirmative action has resulted in any changes that wouldn't have occurred naturally," says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas. "In the long run, I don't think the results are going to be so positive." There will be no marked improvement in minority hiring, he says, until primary and secondary education is improved for lower-class blacks...