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- Title
The ebb and flow of enforcing Executive Order 11246.
- Authors
Anderson, Bernard E.
- Abstract
All business firms with the U.S. government contracts worth $50,000 or more, and with 50 or more employees, are required to conduct a self-audit to determine whether their employment of minorities and women across the broad spectrum of occupational groups comports with the availability of persons in such groups who are qualified for employment by the firm. If a significant disparity is found between the employment of qualified minorities and women in the contractor's work force and their presence in the labor market, the contractor is required to develop an affirmative-action plan to eliminate the disparity. The affirmative-action plan specifies a set of procedures the employer will follow in recruiting, evaluating, hiring, training, and promoting employees in order to assure that qualified minorities and women are considered for employment at every level of the workplace. Contractors are expected to make a good faith effort to follow their plan in managing their human-resources system. Regulations that guide the enforcement process specifically prohibit hiring quotas, racial and gender preferences, and other numerically based requirements in the implementation of affirmative-action plans.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICAN business enterprises; EMPLOYMENT discrimination -- Government policy; AFFIRMATIVE action policy; WOMEN employees; WOMEN'S employment; EMPLOYMENT of minorities; OCCUPATIONAL training for minorities; EMPLOYEE selection; EMPLOYEE training; INDUSTRIAL management
- Publication
American Economic Review, 1996, Vol 86, Issue 2, p298
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article