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Mitchell, the office-workers' representative, said unequal pay, along with poor promotion prospects and working conditions for female office workers make imperative a concerted effort to thwart the Reagan administration's attempts to repeal affirmative action legislation and diminish the role of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
...several groups, including the state's SPCA and the New England Anti-vivisection Society, are attempting to repeal the pound law. Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of the center and professor of Comparative Pathology, is coordinating an effort by several Boston area medical schools to thwart this attempt...
...other important fronts. William Baxter, chief of the department's antitrust division, will ease the regulations on corporate mergers, and announced that only those couplings that hit the consumer with higher prices will be challenged. Smith is also seeking to trim the Freedom of Information Act and repeal the Ethics in Government Act's requirement that a special prosecutor be named when a high federal official is suspected of a crime. Moreover, the Attorney General last week abolished a set of guidelines adopted by the Carter Administration to limit Government lawsuits against "whistleblowers," federal employees who leak confidential...
...they will turn to the courts to protect their gains. In the past, it was usually industry that went to court to challenge government regulations. Now consumer groups will be the ones suing both the government and corporations to enforce compliance with the laws that can be protected from repeal. The White House is trying to make such legal recourse more difficult. With the backing of congressional conservatives, the Administration eliminated funding for the Legal Services Corporation from the 1982 budget bill. One reason: to stop class-action suits brought on behalf of consumers. A fight is now under...
Reagan administration efforts to repeal federal rules banning sexual discrimination in the employment practices of colleges receiving government aid will not affect Harvard's policy of "continued affirmative action." University officials said yesterday...