Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followers last week, Khomeini again mentioned a constituent assembly as an early step in rebuilding the country. He promised an honest system of justice, noting that the Imam Ali had set up such a fair system in the 7th century that "even a Jew when he brought suit against the highest official in the land could make his case and win." Khomeini predicted that in the new Iran "even the minorities will be protected and will have the power to bring the most powerful person in the country to justice." During the Christian holidays he received Jewish and Armenian delegations...
...sweeping class action filed in the Washington, B.C., Federal District Court, Sears blamed the Government for whatever employment unbalances exist in the retail industry. The suit, prepared by veteran Civil Rights Attorney Charles Morgan Jr., charges that the Justice Department, the Labor Department, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and seven agencies have built up an absurd number of conflicting goals for different minorities. Sears maintains that it is not company employment practices that have held back integration but the Government's failure to press vigorously for equality in housing, education and craft training...
Sears, the leader in an industry that employs more than 15% of the labor force, has long been at odds with the EEOC. Indeed, some thought the suit was designed to steal thunder from an anti-Sears suit still pending at EEOC. Sears officials deny this, but they make no secret of their frustrations with Washington. In 1973 the EEOC charged that Sears, which has about 417,000 people on its payroll, had followed discriminatory hiring and promotion practices. The company added a new dimension to its affirmative action program: Sears units were to hire one minority group member...
...suit, Sears asks the courts to declare its existing affirmative action program to be in full accord with the law. Insists Ray Graham, Sears' director of equal opportunity: "We've made a tremendous effort to comply." He notes that since 1966 the company proportion of women managers has risen from 20% to 36%; of women craftworkers from 3.8% to 8.1%; of black managers from 4% to 7.2%; and of black craftworkers from 2.8% to 8.9%. But the EEOC now demands that 50% of new management positions and 33% of new craft openings be given to women and Sears...
Though Government attorneys consider the suit to be mainly a public relations gesture, it will strike a chord among many businessmen who maintain that the "discrimination" problem lies with the cumulative bad effects over the years of the many changes, contradictions and lack of coordination in federal employment regulations. The suit notes that some of Sears' present difficulties stem from postwar years, when Washington urged companies to hire veterans, who were then predominantly white and male. The later imperative to hire more women and minorities not only conflicted with this earlier priority but also resulted in hiring policies being...