Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...item on a California jury verdict against SCM Corporation for unfair competition [March 5] contained an unfortunate statement suggesting that SCM had "a policy of using sabotage as a sales tactic." That statement is an incorrect reference to equivocal testimony by an ex-SCM employee, himself fired for proposing unethical conduct...
...bishop of El Paso, the Most Rev. Sidney M. Metzger, sent a letter to all U.S. Catholic bishops, lambasting Farah for unfair labor practices and asking his fellow clergymen to bring pressure on retailers not to reorder from the company. "I feel that the company is acting unjustly in denying to the workers the basic right to collective bargaining," the bishop declared...
Created to assure fair hearings on student and Faculty complaints, the Commission has been unable to perform effectively for several reasons. First, little effort was made to draw students' attention to the Commission as an avenue of appeal. Second, the Commission was never empowered to change unfair decisions. Its members haven't even established the extent of the Commission's powers of recommendation. Third, and most basic, no one with complaints on matters of broad policy--such as the University's refusal to sell its Gulf stock, the lack of student input in selecting tenured Faculty, or the determination...
Guilty. Reliability aside, polygraph opponents argue that forcing employees to take lie-detector tests is unfair and degrading. Next month, the American Civil Liberties Union will publish a report contending that employee testing by polygraphy violates the constitutional principle that a citizen is presumed innocent until proven guilty and constitutes "an illegal search and seizure of the subject's thoughts, attitudes and beliefs." Says John Shattuck, a co-author of the report: "It is logically impossible to determine whether polygraph testing at a particular company is voluntary or a condition of employment, so all pre-employment use should...
Regardless, graduate students respond, the criteria the GSAS uses to establish need is unfair, and all students, in all years at the GSAS, should receive uniform assistance according to full need. But if graduate students have no outside income, if parental and spouse income are not incorporated into calculations of need, and if additional teaching fifths are not subtracted from need, then about the only monetary requirements for three to eight years at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the application...