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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 244
To require certain entities receiving United States funds from the
International Fund for Ireland to comply with the MacBride Principles.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 4, 1995
Mr. ENGEL (for himself, Mr. MANTON, Mr. KING, Mr. DELLUMS, Mr.
MCNULTY, Mrs. ROUKEMA, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. WALSH,
Mr. CLAY, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. PAYNE of New Jersey, Mr. SERRANO, Mrs.
MALONEY, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. LAFALCE, Mr. BORSKI, Mr. TRAFICANT,
and Mr. OWENS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations
A BILL
To require certain entities receiving United States funds
from the International Fund for Ireland to comply with
the MacBride Principles.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. COMPLIANCE WITH MACBRIDE PRINCIPLES RE-
QUIRED FOR RECIPIENTS OF UNITED STATES
FUNDS FROM INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR
IRELAND.
(a) IN GENERAL.—No entity in Northern Ireland and
Ireland shall be eligible to receive any United States funds
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from the International Fund for Ireland during a fiscal
year unless such entity is in compliance with the MacBride
Principles with respect to those employees during such
year.
(b) MACBRIDE PRINCIPLES DEFINED.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘‘MacBride Principles’’
means the following principles:
(1) Eliminating religious discrimination in man-
agerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and
technical jobs and significantly increasing the rep-
resentation in such jobs of individuals from
underrepresented religious groups.
(2) Providing adequate security for the protec-
tion of minority employees at the workplace.
(3) Banning provocation sectarian and political
emblems from the workplace.
(4) Advertising publicly all job openings and
undertaking special recruitment efforts to attract
applicants from underrepresented religious groups.
(5) Establishing layoff, recall, and termination
procedures which do not favor particular religious
groupings.
(6) Providing equal employment for all employ-
ees, including implementing equal and nondiscrim-
inatory terms and conditions of employment for all
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employees, and abolishing job reservations, appren-
ticeship restrictions, and differential employment cri-
teria, which discriminate on the basis of religion or
ethnic origin.
(7) Developing training programs that will pre-
pare substantial numbers of minority employees for
managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical, and
technical jobs, including—
(A) expanding existing programs and form-
ing new programs to train, upgrade, and im-
prove the skills of all categories of minority em-
ployees;
(B) creating on-the-job training programs
and facilities to assist minority employees to ad-
vance to higher paying jobs requiring greater
skills; and
(C) establishing and expanding programs
to enable minority employees to further their
education and skills to recognize education fa-
cilities.
(8) Establishing procedures to assess, identify,
and actively recruit minority individuals with poten-
tial for further advancement, and identifying those
minority individuals who have high management po-
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tential and enrolling them in accelerated manage-
ment programs.
(9) Appointing a senior management staff
member to oversee compliance with the principles
described in this subsection.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section—
(1) the term ‘‘United States funds’’ means any
funds contributed by United States to the Inter-
national Fund for Ireland; and
(2) the term ‘‘International Fund for Ireland’’
means the fund described in section 8(2) of the
Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986.
SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Section 1(a) shall apply with respect to funds avail-
able from the International Fund for Ireland during fiscal
years beginning on or after October 1, 1995.
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