MODNEX INTEL/KATSURA WORLDWIDE:"POWER NEWS ALERT"-"RAND CORPORATION UNDER INVESTIGATION"

MODNEX INTEL/KATSURA WORLDWIDE . . .

. . . "DIVISION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE" AND "DIVISION OF SOCIOECONOMICS" . . .

. . . REPORTS . . . IN A "POWER NEWS ALERT" . . .

. . . THAT . . . "THE RAND CORPORATION'S" . . .

. . . SANTA MONICA-BASED CAMPUS . . . IS . . .

. . . "UNDER INVESTIGATION" . . . BY MODNEX INTEL . . . FOR POTENTIAL "ABUSES IN HIRING PRACTICES AND VIOLATIONS OF STATE AND FEDERAL STATUTES AND ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES" . . .

. . . MODNEX INTEL REPORTS THAT THE INVESTIGATION WILL LIKELY SPAN, INITIALLY, OVER THE NEXT TWO TO THREE MONTHS OF INQUIRY AND FACT GATHERING . . .

. . . WHILE MODNEX INTEL ALSO NOTED THAT THE INVESTIGATION MAY ALSO BRANCH OUT INTO THE REGION AND STATE'S BUSINESS AND HIRING PRACTICES . . . AS WELL . .
. . . MODNEX INTEL'S "DIVISION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE" NOTED COMPLAINANTS IN RAND'S INTERVIEWING AND HIRING DETERMINATIONS MENTIONED THAT RAND HAS "AN ELUSIVE REVIEW COMMITTEE" . . . WHICH IS OFTEN REFERRED TO BY RAND'S PERSONNEL . . . FOR MAKING SUCH DETERMINATIONS . . . HOWEVER, COMPLAINANTS STATED THAT "THEY'VE NEVER HEARD, SEEN OR SPOKEN TO ANY SUCH 'REVIEW COMMITTEE'" AND DO NOT KNOW IF SUCH A COMMITTEE EVEN EXISTS . . .

. . . MODNEX INTEL STATED THAT THERE IS SUSPICION THAT RAND'S SO-CALLED "REVIEW COMMITTEE" MAY BE A "VENEER" . . . FOR A "STREET CULTURE" PROCESS OF DETERMINATION . . . MADE ARBITRARILY . . . BY HUMAN RESOURCE PERSONNEL . . . RELATIVE TO THE SELECTION OF INTERVIEWING AND HIRING NON-PROFESSIONAL-LEVEL PERSONNEL . . .

. . . MODNEX INTEL'S "DIVISION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE" AND "DIVISION OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS" . . .

. . . REPORTED THAT THE RAND CORPORATION'S SANTA MONICA-BASED CAMPUS, HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR, REFUSED SUBSTANTIVE COMMENT ON ALL CRITICAL QUESTIONING . . . AND RESORTED TO REDUNDANT, "CANNED" STATEMENTS AND "TECHNIQUEING" . . .

. . . MODNEX INTEL REPORTED THAT THEY SUSPECT A "HUGE PROBLEM AT RAND RELATIVE TO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS WHICH ARE SEVERLY UNDERREPRESENTED, AT BOTH STATE AND NATIONAL LEVELS (BY OCCUPATION), AND ACCORDING TO THE EEOC SURVEY DATA FOR 2009 . . . "