Word: hires
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...Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its mildest interpretation, affirmative action merely requires an employer to attempt to recruit women, blacks, Hispanics and others for jobs usually held by white males. But courts and previous Administrations have increasingly enforced a sterner standard: employers must set numerical goals and timetables-hiring or promoting, say, five women and five blacks or Hispanics by mid-1983 into a bookkeeping department that is now staffed by 25 white males. The Carter Administration went so far as to imply that employers might have to hire or promote women and minority-group members over white males...
Another important provision: an employer who has only 80% as many women or minority employees as the Government might think "reasonable," would be excused from setting a timetable to hire the remaining 20%. To take a plausible example, a building firm of a certain size figures it should employ ten black construction laborers in Philadelphia to please the Government, given the availability of black labor in that area and the size of its total work force. If the firm actually has only eight black laborers, it need not tell the Government how soon it proposes to hire two more...
...through the orange groves of Florida to the tomato fields of California, thousands of farm workers live in squalid shacks with communal latrines and no running water. Fruit and vegetable growers assert that they pay the minimum wage, but the money is often funneled through labor contractors who actually hire the workers. In many cases, these so-called crew chiefs, who are usually immigrants themselves, deduct exorbitant amounts from worker salaries for food, rent and transportation...
Reagan also proposes new federal fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens: up to $1,000 for each undocumented worker. Says Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan: "It is our apathy, our lack of concern that has allowed such an evil and unconscionable system to exist." Donovan faces a tough job in breaking through that apathy and cracking down on America's underground labor market...
...Nobel Prizewinner Friedman at Chicago, and many of his positions bear a free-market stamp: forced school busing is insulting and destructive to blacks as well as whites. Affirmative action and quotas, with their accompanying threat of antidiscrimination suits by those who do not win promotions, lead employers to hire only the safest risks-the most talented and credentialed members of minority groups. The minimum wage has quintupled teen-age unemployment among blacks, because employers eliminate jobs rather than pay more than unskilled youths are worth...