The Nation - News from Aug. 9, 1985
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it plans to radically revise civil rights procedures by changing the way it defines employment discrimination and abolishing the use of quotas to remedy it. EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas said he will seek major changes in the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, which apply to all private and public employers. He called the rules “conceptually unsound” and said they amount to enforcing reverse discrimination. The Reagan Administration supports voluntary affirmative action programs. The EEOC said the proposal may be ready for a commission vote by next February.
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