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Problems with Federal Ejual Employment Opportunity Guidelines on
Employee Selection PqedAures Need To Be Resolved. FPCD-77-54;
8-167015. February 2, '78. 38 pp. + 10 appendices (28 pp.).
Report to the Congress; 'by Elmer B. Staats, Couptroller Genoral.
Issue Area: Personne &1ngement and Compensation 1300);
Non-Discriniaation &nd Equal Opportunity Pr=g&ams: Federal
Agencies' Achievement of Equal Gppcr';nity and
Nondiscrimination. Obiectives (1010).
Contact: Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Budget Function: Genlr'a4 Government: Central Personnel
Managemert (805) L, eneral Government: Other General
Government (806). -
Organization Concerned: Civil Service Commission; Department of
Labor; Department of Justice; Equal EmploymeLt Opportunity
Commission.
Congressional Relevand'de House Committee on Education and Labor;
Senate Committee' or Human Resources; Congress.
At1thority: Equal Emp16yent Opportunity Act of 1972 (P.L.
92-261). Civil Rjqgts Act of 1974. Executive orier 11246.
Griggs v. Duke Po~er Co., 401 U.S. 424 (I571). Ailbermarle
Paper Co. v. Moody, 422 U.C. 405, 425 (1975). McDozinell
Douglas Corp. v.G'reen, 411 U.S. 792, 802 (1973). Washington
v. Davis, 429 U.S. 229 (1976). Douglas v. Hampton, 512 F.2d
976 (D.C. CiL. 1415).
The Equal Employment OpportuAity Coordinating Council,
consisting of the Secretary of Labor, the Attorney General, and
the Chairpersons of the Civil Service Commissicn, Civil Eights
commission, and Equal Employment Cpportunity Commission cr their
respective delegates, was established in 1972 to cocrdinate
Federal egudl employment opportunity enforcement efforts. Early
in 1973, the Council set out to develop and adopt uniform
guidelines for determining the proper use of tests and other
selection procedures, onsist:?nt with the equal employment
opportunity requirehts of Federal law. After 5 years. this
work is still not copleted. Findings/Conclusiou : Longstanding
disagreements on gukeltne requirements have arisen among the
%ember agencies of the Council. Their vieus have differed on the
legal and technical standards for judging the proper use of
tests, and they per~cPve their mandates differently and have
pursued different op.j ting responsihb±ities. The Coun:il lacks
authority to compel 'eiber agencies to change their policies and
ouidelines or to adot ,ned ones in the interest of developing
unitorm positions on .matters relating to equal employment
opportunity. Other portant unresolved issues include.:
eliminating misunderstandings about what the Federal guidelines
require employers to .o, obtaiving financial and professional
resources to put the ..idelines into practice, getting
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