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...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination joined in EEOC's judgment, and in March told Harvard that uunless the University can agree with Isaac, the commission will itself enter negotiations and if necessary hold a public hearing...
...bind. If they gave minorities a break to remedy racial imbalance in hiring, they risked suits from rejected whites like Weber. But if they had a racially imbalanced work force and did nothing about it, they risked getting sued by minorities as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); they also stood a chance of losing their federal contracts. With Weber, they now have some guidance on what they can and cannot...
Though the decision stressed the importance of employers voluntarily setting up affirmative-action programs, it is likely that the government will use Weber to push for outright quota systems for minorities. Says Stanley Kaleczyc, associate general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This decision will give the EEOC more reason to press companies that have been laying back...
Brennan did not address the issue, but it is clear that the EEOC can obtain court-ordered affirmative action, including quotas, if it proves past discrimination. Most affirmative-action programs exist because employers cannot get federal contracts without them. Last week the Government said it would no longer buy from Uniroyal, charging that the company had balked at setting up an affirmative-action program for women. Uniroyal is only the 21st company to be so penalized in 15 years, but it is the biggest-with $35 million in outstanding Government contracts...
Plenty, decided the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which oversees federal antidiscrimination programs. Last week the EEOC frostily in formed Montgomery County that it would be "an abuse of federal law and regulations" to accept such a name change as a basis for conferring minority status. The county promptly launched an investigation into its whole affirmative-action program, and Roberto E. Leon is still being treated by his employers as though he were named Robert...