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...were not enough. "The guidelines did not help clear up the confusion that's out there, and did not really apply to what goes on in the real world," says Michael Lotito, managing partner in the San Francisco law firm of Jackson Lewis, which represents management in labor disputes. EEOC Commissioner Paul Miller counters that the guidelines did raise awareness of psychiatric disabilities on the part of employers but were not intended to offer specific remedies...
...services and techniques, the battle to integrate the disabled more thoroughly into regular working life is far from over. Formidable obstacles remain. In the U.S., one of the most difficult issues involves health care. "What happens if you get a job that doesn't have health insurance?" asks EEOC Commissioner Miller. "You lose your Medicare benefits, which you greatly need once you get that job, and then you can't purchase a separate health plan because of a pre-existing condition." The answer, he feels, is possibly to amend the Medicare and Medicaid system regarding eligibility, so that...
...that question is not clear, but one thing is: Answers abound. Since January, most Americans have developed genuine opinions regarding sexual harassment. Yet those opinions will not influence the law, for it is made not by duly elected representatives, but by unaccountable bureaucrats at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and by the justices of the Supreme Court...
...past President Clinton's troubles and to the farcical 1991 Thomas-Hill hearings. Sexual harassment law rests on the congressional foundation of Title VII, which makes it illegal "to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge...or otherwise discriminate against" someone based on sex. From that foundation, the EEOC and the courts have done their best (which is often very bad) to construct an edifice of sexual harassment...
TIME regrets having printed incorrect figures on discrimination complaints to the EEOC for last year...