Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
Pub. L.92–261 | |
Statutes at Large | 86 Stat. 103 |
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Codification | |
U.S.C. sections amended | |
Legislative history | |
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United States Supreme Court cases | |
, 417 U.S. 535 (1974) |
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 is a
The employment provisions of the 1964 Act only applied to firms with 25 or more employees; the 1972 Act extended that to firms with 15 or more employees.
A 1998 study based on Current Population Survey data found that there were "large shifts in the employment and pay practices of the industries most affected" by the 1972 Act, and concluded that it had "a positive impact" on African Americans' labor market status.[4] With regards to government employment, a 1978 study found that the act had little impact on employment of African Americans in the higher levels of the federal civil service.[9]
References
- ^ Rivers, Richard R. (1973). "In America, What You Do Is What You Are: The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972". Catholic University Law Review. 22 (2): 455. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ Sape, George P.; Hart, Thomas J. (July 1972). "Title VII Reconsidered: The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972". Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 40 (5): 824. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ Brodin, Mark L. (1987). "Costs, Profits, and Equal Employment Opportunity". Notre Dame Law Review. 62: 318, 333. Retrieved 2020-05-06.
- ^ S2CID 156039791.
- ^ Aston, Adam W. (January 2004). "'Fair and Full Employment': Forty Years of Unfulfilled Promises". Washington University Journal of Law & Policy. 15: 285, 302–304. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ Aston 2004, p. 296.
- ^ Aston 2004, p. 305.
- ^ Aston 2004, p. 286, and the definition of "employer" (cited there), .
- JSTOR 975677.
External links
- Lewinsohn, Thomas F. (1974). "Equal Employment Opportunity Through Affirmative Action". The American Review of Public Administration. 8 (1): 71. S2CID 153774471.
- Richard Nixon's signing statement about the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, from the American Presidency Project