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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is proposing to revise the regulations implementing the non-discrimination and affirmative action regulations of section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. Section 503 prohibits discrimination by covered Federal contractors and subcontractors against individuals on the basis of disability, and requires affirmative action on behalf of qualified individuals with disabilities. The proposed regulations would strengthen the affirmative action provisions, detailing specific actions a contractor must take to satisfy its obligations. They would also increase the contractor's data collection obligations, and establish a utilization goal for individuals with disabilities to assist in measuring the effectiveness of the cont...
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WHILE it is acknowledged that the government should be more transparent and efficient in its pursuit of market-friendly affirmative action, the real question is whether the market wants to be a willing partner in any such action, especially since the recent global economic crisis has shown that the market cannot self- regulate. THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN INTRODUCED via the New Economic Policy (NEP) 40 years ago continues to be hotly debated.
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The article views affirmative action as a policy for eradicating all of the present effects of conscious and unconscious, direct and indirect, racial and ethnic discrimination on the incoming student selection process. The article presumes that a fair process would produce a racially and ethnically diverse student body. This article also discusses some ideas for improving that process and some practical mechanisms that larger schools could use to achieve reasonably comparable results. For too long, affirmative action programs have neglected those suffering most from the effects of past and present racism. Elite colleges and universities have concluded that students receiving inferior K-12 educations are too far behind to handle an elite school's rigorous academic program. Colleges shoul...
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Affirmative action is again rearing its ugly head, this time in police and fire departments across the country. Affirmative action was initiated with noble stated intentions: to right the wrongs of decades of oppression of black men and women. It has instead perpetuated a system of racism and discrimination that further ingrains the idea that blacks are inferior to whites and people should be defined by their race and skin color and not by their individual abilities. Affirmative action hiring programs are not only impractical, they are immoral. Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice lowered the exam requirements for police officers in Dayton, Ohio, because Justice felt that not enough black people were passing the exams. The previous standard required applicants to achieve a 66 perc...
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This Sunday will mark the 50th anniversary of the first time the phrase "affirmative action" was used in the civil rights context, in Executive Order 10925, which President Kennedy signed on March 6, 1961. Ironically, it is clear that the phrase in Kennedy's document meant taking positive steps, proactive measures - affirmative action, get it? - to make sure racial discrimination did not occur, that individuals were treated "without regard" to race by government contractors. But it did not take activists, bureaucrats and judges long to turn the principle of nondiscrimination on its head.
