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...last week the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, charged with enforcing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, announced that it would move away from bringing suits aimed at helping entire classes of minorities and instead seek to remedy only individual discrimination, which is more difficult and costly to prove. Said EEOC Commissioner Fred Alvarez: "When somebody tells me they ought to get something because they're Irish and saw signs in Boston that said IRISH NEED NOT APPLY . . . or because their ancestors were in slavery, I say, 'So what...
...that employers must ask for identification of all prospective employees, without regard to national origin. The bill discriminates on both a class and racial basis. Sponsors virtually concede the bill's discriminatory nature by suggesting an employer review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...
...Urban League's bleak findings were bolstered by another report released the same day that dealt with job discrimination. In a survey of major companies in the Boston area, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found blacks severely underrepresented in key industries. Even though minorities are generally better educated in Boston than in most other areas of the U.S., they are disproportionately concentrated in lower-paying jobs. Not one of Boston's electric, gas and sanitary-service companies has minority sales employees...
Even custodian jobs in investment firms are, according to the EEOC, "totally segregated." Fumed Regional Director Thomas Saltonstall: "This isn't Baton Rouge in 1864. It is Boston in 1984. The situation is appalling...
...charging that racism and sexism were involved in the last March's appointment of former University Police Capt. John Logan as director of Public Safety. She has also alleged that top administrators and Public Safety officials have harassed and threatened her since she filed a complaint with the EEOC...