University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 22, 1979
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Discrimination
From page one
THE OFFICE has been able to handle complaints formally since April 1, Williams said, when hiring and grievance procedures were established.
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Williams said he did not know why the employees with complaints had filed them with the EOEC and not with his office.
"I guess they didn't know our office existed."
Williams said he did not think the number of complaints warranted an investigation by the EECO, considering the Med Center employs about 5,400 people.
Miner, of the KCCR, said the complaints received by the EECOL "all had a familiar ring" and he thought the EECOL could form a basis for a systematic investigation.
A systematic investigation occurs when a state enforcement agency such as the KCCR or EBOC decides that a pattern is occurring and files against an industry or institution.
When the EECO starts working through its backlog of complaints, Williams said, it may find three or four similar complaints and may decide an investigation is needed.
THE COMPLIANTS are then consolidated and an investigation is conducted to determine whether the pattern is occurring throughout the institution.
Miner said that in his opinion, several former Med Center employees had pay increases from them and had other benefits. He says they did their retirements by retiring; the employees had retained benefits that would have been lost to them had the Med Center fired them.
Miner cited B.E. "Pete" Smith, former personnel director at the Med Center, as an example of one person forced into retirement.
The theirs also would be looked into if an investigation occurs, he said, and they could go to a local hospital situation if the EEOC determined that people were being harassed, forced to retire or otherwise terminated.
Miner said he knew of other employees at the Med Center who had not filed complaints for loss of their jobs.
"In my opinion, Pete Smith is an expert person in his field," he said. Smith was fired several months ago.
"They would be entitled to the money they lost from being unemployed, for the embarrassment and humiliation they might have suffered," he said.
SMITH DECLINED to comment on his complaint with the Med Center, but did say he knew of several others who had made complaints.
Miner said he had been contacted by two investigators from the St. Louis EEOC office concerning the complaints.
ACCORDING TO MINNER, Pat Wilhite,
an EEOC supervisor, and an associate
Lisa and Shelley get ready for fall functions and campus get-together at the Gay Shoppe in downtown Laurence.
Lisa likes college-town corduroy separates in deep teal blue with western detailing.
A pale teal calico print blouse completes her look.
Shelley chooses Paint-Her sportswear in tan herringbone pants with a dark brown velvet top over a silky beige print blouse.
Miner said he would meet with the officials today at the KCCR office.
wanted information about complaints filed against the Med Center.
Although officials from the EECG did not routinely visit with other agencies, Minner said they would gladly take any information firsthand to give to their investigators.
Later this year, a KCCR review will be conducted by Earl Hale, a compliance manager at the University has followed on through a compliance agreement it made in 1976 with the university.
The agreement involved recruitment, promotions and breaking up clusters of
females and minority workers in certain types of jobs, Minner said.
The agreement, which runs for five years, was last reviewed in 1978.
against the Med Center allege that later terms of the agreement have been violated. If violations of the agreement are found, Med Center legal specialists would advise the general counsel to seek a district court order to enforce the agreement and to prohibit the University from providing services there.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program under the Department of Labor also would undertake a routine
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A member of the Board of Regents, E. Bernard Franklin, said that the Regents would make every effort to ensure the guidelines were met.
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