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Affirmative Action & Seniority : Doctrinal Conflict in Equal Employment Opportunity Law.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in employment.
- Judge-made law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 pages) : digital, PDF file
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1985.
- System Details:
- System requirements: PDF reader software.
- text file
- Summary:
- Reviews the doctrinal evolution of the affirmative action and seniority concepts in the context of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Also discusses relevant case law, focusing on Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 volumes Stotts in which the Supreme Court ruled that vested seniority rights of veteran employees prevail over competing interests of more recently hired minorities, and subsequent cases.
- Notes:
- CRS Report.
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed June 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
- Other Format:
- Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Affirmative Action & Seniority: Doctrinal Conflict in Equal Employment Opportunity Law
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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