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- From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
- Subject: Re: Boycotts (was Re: Why are many low-income women fat?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.001454.8855@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec26.174805.28940@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec26.185424.16070@netcom.com> <BzvzoM.Fn3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 00:14:54 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <BzvzoM.Fn3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne) writes:
- >
- >>>>In many cases, these policies are a matter of public record. For
- >>>>example, in the case of the systems analyst, she was explicitly
- >>>>told by her contact at the employment agency that Sun would not
- >>>>hire her.
- >
- >>Just for the record, it is my understanding that Sun is not hiring
- >>-any- temporaries, at all, and this has been the policy for the last
- >>several years. This is unqualified, regardless of sex, height, or
- >>planet of origin, they will not hire any temps as permanant.
- >
- >>Even reading your text, I cannot see any implication of discrimination.
- >
- >The woman was considered for a permanent position at Sun; and she was
- >explicitly told, that people of a nonstandard weight would not be
- >considered for such positions.
- >
- >Yes, I think that's discrimination...
- >
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- She was told this by the agency, not by Sun. And if it was within the
- last several years, Sun has not been hiring temps. And just for the
- record, I know an engineer at Sun who would probably not fit in the
- passenger seat of my Honda Civic. If this were company policy, he
- could not be working there.
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- Rich
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- payner@netcom.com
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