Go Orange Electronics has been manufacturing computers since 1979. It employs approximately 2700 employees. In 1987, the company's EEO Department advised management that 97% of the company's supervisors were white, although the company's workforce was 38% other than white. The company decided to implement a voluntary affirmative action plan which would reserve 25% of each supervisory training class for blacks and other minorities until such time as the percentage of minorities that were supervisors was representative of the available minorities in the local labor force.

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This affirmative action plan is legal because it is temporary, doesn't unnecessarily infringe on the rights of white employees, and is designed to eliminate the racial imbalance in supervisory positions. The plan is not setting a quota but rather reserving a percentage of spots for minorities until the company's supervisory positions are representative of the available minorities in the local labor force. This plan does not discriminate against white men as they are still eligible to compete for the remaining spots in the supervisory training class.

Go Orange Electronics Has Been Manufacturing Computers Since 1979