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Contribution Between Parties To A Discriminatory Collective Bargaining Agreement, Michigan Law Review Nov 1980

Contribution Between Parties To A Discriminatory Collective Bargaining Agreement, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note examines rules of title VII back pay liability and apportionment. Part I argues that all signatories to a discriminatory collective bargaining agreement should be jointly and severally liable to injured persons for back pay. Although a union or employer may object to joint and several liability if its opponent in collective bargaining proposed and bargained for the discriminatory term, the purposes of title VII require that the parties become jointly and severally liable upon signing the agreement. Since joint and several liability fully serves the compensatory purpose of the statute, Part II of the Note looks to deterrence …


Civil Rights - Employment Discrimination - Employer May Establish Voluntary Affirmative Action Program Within Area Of Discretion Granted By Title Vii, Penny Tannenbaum Jan 1979

Civil Rights - Employment Discrimination - Employer May Establish Voluntary Affirmative Action Program Within Area Of Discretion Granted By Title Vii, Penny Tannenbaum

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Numbers Game - The Use And Misuse Of Statistics In Civil Rights Litigation, Marcy M. Hallock Jan 1977

The Numbers Game - The Use And Misuse Of Statistics In Civil Rights Litigation, Marcy M. Hallock

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Employer Racial Discrimination: Reviewing The Role Of The Nlrb, Lawrence F. Doppelt Jan 1975

Employer Racial Discrimination: Reviewing The Role Of The Nlrb, Lawrence F. Doppelt

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The NLRB and various commentators rely upon three basic legal arguments in rejecting this interpretation: first, the EEOC, and not the NLRB, is the sole and proper agency for litigating racial issues; second, employer racial discrimination does not interfere with the protected rights of employees under the Act, and third, it is not, and never was, Congress' intent in passing the Act to bring racial discrimination within its purview. Unquestionably, each of these legal arguments has, or at some time had, surface appeal, and, at one time, considerable force. The great mass of legal commentary supports at least one of …