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Title: The Evolution Of Fair Employment Practices And Affirmative Action
Author: John C. Tucker
Source: American Gas Association 1978
Year Published: 1978
Abstract: The planning, acquisition, administration, and utilization of human resources are among the most troublesome concerns facing your organizations and the natural gas industry today. Recruiting, hiring and supervising employees is second in importance only to gas supply and pricing. This is because there is presently and has been for the last 15 years an evolution of fair employment practices, socio-economic regulations. Executive Orders, and legislation that continuously affects human resource planning and utilization in organizations such as yours. This total movement, including but not limited to equal employment opportunity and affirmative action programs, was activated in recent history during the early 1940s - the World War II period. Fair employment practices legislation and regulations were first directed at those organizations whose activities supported and profited by the war efforts. This legislation encouraged these organizations to utilize all available labor resources including women and minority group persons. It was not difficult to attain some degree of success during that period because a majority of able-bodied men was involved in the military effort. These circumstances forced companies to rely heavily on the utilization of women and of minorities not previously included in the work force of many organizations. However, nothing of earthshaking proportion happened from about the end of World War II until the early 1960s when we started to receive a rash of Executive Orders and legislation relating to social change.

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