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EEOC ACTED IRRESPONSIBLY IN DROPPING GOALS AND TIMETABLES,SAYS CONGRESSMAN\n\nBy spurning the use of goals and timetables to settle race and sex bias casesagainst employers such as private colleges,the Equal Employment OpportunityCommission has obstructed law enforcement and abdicated its role as a federalmediator,a member of Congress said yesterday.  \n\"Government officials charged with enforcing the law should not take it intotheir own hands to decide that 20 years of civil rights law suddenly is nolonger legal nor viable,and then argue that the issue is out of their handsuntil the Supreme Court renders a decision,\"said Rep.Matthew Martinez,D-Calif.,and chairman of the House Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities.  \nNo Excuse\"An agency which obstructs enforcement of the law,while fuel-ing misleading debate,has abdicated responsibilities which it has been chargedwith,\"said Martinez.\"There is no excuse for this abdication,unless the com-missioners charged with its enforcement seek to undermine its mission.If so,\"he said,\"then those members should resign.\"  \nThe subcommittee is investigating a statement last month by EEOC's acting gen-eral counsel,Johnny Butler,that he had instructed EEOC attorneys last fallto ignore cases that require a private employer to use numerical goals andtimetables in hiring and promoting women and minorities,even though the five-member commission has adopted no such policy(HED,Feb。12)。The panel hasscheduled another hearing for tomorrow.  \nThe use of goals and timetables to enforce Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of1964,which bars discrimination by employers on the basis of race,color,sex,handicap or national origin,has been the subject of much debate during theReagan administration.  \nPrevailing MoodTestifying yesterday,Butler said he had issued thestatement based on his \"assessment\"of the commission's position on usinggoals and timetables to prescribe remedies in consent decrees.  \nBut Martinez told Butler that,if a policy decision is to be made,\"which Idon't think you have the right to make,then you should have asked the commis-sion to make that policy.\"  \nEEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas testified that EEOC has not\"abandoned\"the useof hiring goals and timetables in race and sex discrimination cases,but saidthe commission \"has no policy that mandates\"their use:a point that shockedRep.Augustus Hawkins,D-Calif.(more)  \n# EEOC ACTED IRRESPONSIBLY IN DROPPING GOALS AND TIMETABLES(Cont.)\n\n\"You mean you have no policy whatsoever as to what is obviously the most im-portant issue\"at EEOC,Hawkins asked.\"The public should know what the policyis,\"he added.  \n\"It is tee general impression [in EEOC regional offices]and of this Congressthat goals and timetables are out\"of vogue with the current administration,Hawkis sa1d.  \nThomas said such a policy should be developed but not in reaction to publicfuror.  \nClifford Alexander,former EEOC chairman and one of the authors of Title VII,however,told the House panel that,to say that goals and timetables should notbe used in employment practices is to \"misconstrue Title VII。\"  \ndeastre oe the res,\"If the attorney general or the chairman of the EEOCAlexander said,\"then let them go to the Congress and askthat it be wiped off the books.\"  \n\"In the meantime,\"said Alexander,\"1ike it or not,they swore to uphold thelaws of this country.One must have lawful systems that can measure progress.Goals and timetables are tools for fairness in the world of work.\"  \nThomas reiterated his belief that,while goals and timetables may be a form of\"prospective relief\"that offers jobs to potential victims of discrimination,it does not solve the problems of individual discrimination.  \n\"Goals and timetables are unworkable in much of our current litigation case-load,\"Thomas said,\"for example,cases involving age discrimination,compen-sation or pregnancy benefits.\"  \nThe other four EEOC commissionerg--Tonv Gallegos.WilliamLLDVueu           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