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Volume 4, Numbers 5 and 6 INSIDE
CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION
The House passed the Family and Medical Leave Act to allow employees to take up to 12 weeks unpaid leave a year in total to care for a newborn or adopted child, seriously ill child or parent, or in the event of the worker's own serious illness
The Civil Rights Act of 1990 was reported out of House and Senate Committees by wide margins, despite an Administration threat of a veto. Supporters of the bill are hopefulthe bill will pass the Congress this summer, and that in the end the President will sign it into law
SUPREME COURT CASES ADDRESS IMPORTANT CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that federal judges may set aside laws that prohibit a school district from in creasing its property tax rate in order to cover the cost of remedying constitutional violations
Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that address the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's affirmative action policies that give preference to minorities and women
Supreme Court agrees to review a 7th Circuit decision that let stand a company's policy of excluding all fertile women from jobs with a certain level of exposure to lead
BOEING AND EEOC SETTLE AGE DISCRIMINATION CASE
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Boeing Co. have entered into a tentative consent decree to settle a six-year old lawsuit regarding Boeing's policy of removing test pilots from flight status at age 60
FINAL RULES ISSUED TO IMPLEMENT THE AIR CARRIER ACCESS ACT OF 1986
Airline companies and organizations representing persons with disabilities have expressed concern about regulations governing nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in air travel
On May 22, the House passed the Americans with Disabilities Act by a vote of 403-20. A similar bill passed the Senate on September 7, 1989 by a 76-8 vote. The President is expected to sign the bill into law in June. This Summer LCEF will publish a SPECIAL REPORT on the ADA, the Emancipation Proclamation for persons with disabilities. The next Monitor will include articles on the GAO report on the implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, and the Oklahoma City school desegregation case.
  
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