Employment Hispanics

Finding work is hard enough at the Gulfton day labor site, where immigrant men crowd daily to offer strong backs and cheap labor. But when the best-known day laborer in America is an alleged serial killer known as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, a day's wage gets dicier still for Diego Xiloj and his friends, who say freelance construction work has plummeted since the killer became quarry in a national manhunt. "I think the employers are scared of us.

Finding work is hard enough at the Gulfton day labor site, where immigrant men crowd daily to offer strong backs and cheap labor. But when the best-known day laborer in America is an alleged serial killer known as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, a day's wage gets dicier still for Diego Xiloj and his friends, who say freelance construction work has plummeted since the killer became quarry in a national manhunt. "I think the employers are scared of us.

In a top-level shake-up at KCBS-TV Channel 2 on Tuesday, Jose Rios was named news director, making him the first Latino to hold that position at the CBS owned-and-operated station as well as any other of the major VHF outlets in Los Angeles. The move becomes effective Tuesday.

Pressured by community groups and the federal government, the City of Long Beach hired Latino employees at an unprecedented rate during the last fiscal year, but Latinos remained the most under-represented ethnic group in local government, city statistics show. The 1984-85 year-end figures also show that more women and minorities worked for the city than ever before, although white men still held a disproportionate share of all municipal jobs, especially the best-paid positions.

A complaint accusing Los Angeles County of race and sex discrimination was filed Monday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by a union representing 48,000 county government workers.

Perhaps nowhere is the view of KCET's performance more divergent, the debate more strident, than in the Latino community over issues of hiring and programming. Last year the National Hispanic Media Coalition filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission asking for denial of KCET's license-renewal application. The coalition claimed that there is an insufficient number of Latino employes, particularly in professional positions, at the station.

After an intensive 11-month investigation, the city Personnel Department has issued a 50-page report critical of the personnel practices of the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department under general manager Fred Croton. The report, which also looks into alleged discriminatory activities in the department, has been sent for review to the City Council, which ordered it last May 29. However, no specific evidence of discrimination was discovered.