EEOC Restructuring Is Debated (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

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By Kirstin Downey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 9, 2003; Page A21


U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials and some of their employees clashed yesterday at a public hearing held to discuss the perennially cash-strapped agency's plan to embark on a fundamental restructuring of how and where it does its work.

Bush administration officials are considering a plan advanced by the National Academy of Public Administration earlier this year that would call for closure of some EEOC offices, particularly those in Rust Belt areas that have suffered substantial job losses because of the decline in manufacturing, in favor of new offices to be located in Sunbelt states where jobs have been growing.

Even the New York and Chicago offices are possibilities for closure, because it may not be essential for them to remain in costly downtown areas, said Jeffrey A. Smith, the agency's chief financial officer. Smith said personnel and rental costs must be reduced to "improve the long-term financial health" of the EEOC, the agency that enforces federal laws banning workplace discrimination.



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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I was wondering when the Bush hackers

were going to get around to the EEOC.