Affirmative Action Policies of governments and other institutions, private and public, intended to promote employment, contracting, educational, and other opportunities for members of historically disadvantaged groups.
Affirmative Action
n. an administration that is subordinate on, or is subordinate to, some other administration's decisions.
Recent Decisions on Affirmative Action
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Affirmative action: Programs often required by state or federal law that attempt to compensate for discriminatory practices that have in the past denied fair consideration to members of minority groups.
affirmative action : an active effort (as through legislation) to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups or women ...
affirmative action
n. the process of a business or governmental agency in which it gives special rights of hiring or advancement to ethnic minorities to make up for past discrimination against that minority.
affirmative action
Positive or constructive action rather than inaction. Affirmative action programs and regulations attempt to compensate for discriminatory practices that have in the past denied fair consideration to members of minority groups.
Affirmative action in the United States
Supreme Court decisions
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979) - Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980) - Wygant v.
Expanded Legal Definition of AffidavitAffirmative Action A reverse discrimination law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of individuals who are socially or economically disadvantaged.
this area of the law encompasses a wide variety of issues like Pension Plans, Retirement, Occupational Safety & Health Regulations, Affirmative Action and Sexual Harassment.
However, in order to decide that a person withdrew from a conspiracy the person he must have taken affirmative action to disavow or defeat the purpose of the conspiracy; and, as just explained, ...
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