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Argues that the use of the long accepted principle of "last in -- first out" in making layoffs has eroded the improvements in minority and female employment, asserting that the employer must adopt the form of a layoff which shares the burden among all or a substantial group of his employees, e.g. by seeking volunteers or providing for rotating or alternating layoffs. (Author/JM)

The layoff problem can be managed if the employer plans operations to provide equal employment opportunity, say the authors. They reexamine the duty to plan for fair employment and apply their conclusions to the reduction-of-hours problem, in light of its peculiar legislative aspects. (LBH)

This is both a report of two years of cooperative activity between the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights and Rutgers Law School and a manual for Federal and State officials concerned with equal housing and employment opportunity. In addition, it carries forward an experiment in legal education: to teach law students the administrative process "from the inside" so that they can, in their practice, assist administrative agencies in carrying out missions given to them by the legislature. Under this working relationship between government and university, programs to implement specific aspects of equal opportunity laws were developed in the academic context of the law school and submitted to the State for testing and adoption. The document describes programs developed in several areas of housing and employment opportunities, with general considerations relating to the administrative process. Included is a report on the efforts at Rutgers Law School to relate legal education to the strengthening of administration of civil rights laws. Employment opportunity programs developed by the project include: (1) rule making in the construction industry, (2) adjudication of discrimination in the electrical trades, (3) processing of discriminatory discharge cases, (5) plant location as a factor in fair employment, and (6) promotion to supervisor. (Author/MF)