this contract. The provisions of the Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C 12101 et seq.) set forth under 28 CFR
35 and 29 CFR 1830 are incorporated by reference in this
contract. In the execution of this contract, the contractor
agrees to comply with the following minimum speclfic
requirement activities of EEO:
a The contractor will work with the contracting agency and
the Federal Government to ensure that it has made every
good faith effort to provide equa! opportunity with respect to all
of its terms and conditions of employment and in their review
of activities under the contract.
b. The contractor will accept as its operating policy the
following statement:
“it is the policy of this Company to assure that applicants
are employed, and that employees are treated during
employment, without regard to their race, religion, sex, colar,
national origin, age or disability. Such action shall include:
employment, upgrading, demotion, or transfer: recruitment or
recrultment advertising; layoff or termination; rates of pay or
other forms of compensation; and selection for training,
including apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, and/or on-the-
job training.”
2. EEO Officer: The contractor will designate and make
known to the contracting officers an EEO Officer who will have
the responsibility for and must be capable of effectively
administering and promoting an active EEO program and who
must be assigned adequate authority and responsibility to do
so
3. DissemInation of Policy: All members of the contractor's
staff who are authorized to hire, supervise, promote, and
discharge employees, or who recommend such action, or who
are substantially involved in such action, will be made fully
cognizant of, and will implement, the contractor's EEO policy
and contractual responsibilities to provide EEO in each grade
and classification of employment. To ensure that the above
agreement will be met, the following actions will be taken as a
minimum:
a. Periodic meetings of supervisory and personnel office
employees will be conducted before the start of work and then
nat less offen than once every six months, at which time the
contractor's EEO policy and Its implementation will be
reviewed and explained. The meetings will be conducted by
the EEO Officer.
b. All new supervisory or personne! office employees will be
given a thorough indoctrination by the EEO Officer, covering
all major aspects of the contractor's EEO obligations within
thirty days following their reporting for duty with the contractor.
c. All personnel who are engaged in direct recruitment for
the project will be Instructed by the EEO Officer In the
contractor's procedures for locating and hiring minorities and
women
d. Notices and posters setting forth the contractor's EEO
policy will be placed in areas readily accessible to employees,
applicants for employment and potential employees.
e. The contractor's EEO policy and the procedures to
implement such policy will be brought to the altention of
employees by means of meetings, employee handbooks, or
other appropriate means.
4. Recruitment: When advertising for employees, the
contractor will include in all advertisements for employees the
notation: "An Equal Opportunity Employer.” All such
advertisements will be placed in publications having a large
circulation among minorities and women in the area from
which the project work force would normally be derived
a. The contractor will, unless precluded by a valid
bargaining agreement, conduct systematic and direct
recruitment through public and private employee referral
sources likely to yield qualified minorities and women. To
meet this requirement, the contractor will identify sources of
potential minority group employees, and establish with such
identified sources procedures whereby minority and women
applicants may be referred {o the contractor for employment
consideration.
b. in the event the contractor has a valid bargaining
agreement providing for exclusive hiring hall referrals, the
contractor Is expected to observe the provisions of that
agreement to the extent that the sysiemn meets the contractor's
compliance with EEO contract provisions. Where
implementation of such an agreement has the effect of
discriminating against minorities or women, or obligates the
contractor to do the same, such implementation violates
Federal nondiscrimination provisions
c. The contractor will encourage its present employees to
refer minorities and women as applicants for employment.
Information and procedures with regard to referring such
applicants will be discussed with employees.
5. Personnel Actions: Wages, working conditions, and
employee benefits shall be established and administered, and
personnel actions of every type, including hiring. upgrading
promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, anc termination, shall be
taken without regard {o race. color, religion, sex, national
origin, age or disability. The following procedures shall be
followed:
a. The contractor will conduct periodic inspections of project
sites to Insure that working conditions and employee facilities
do not indicate discriminatory treatment of project site
personnel.
b. The contractor will periodically evaluate the spread of
wages paid within each classification to determine any
evidence of discriminatory wage practices.
c. The contractor will periodically review selected personne
actions in depth to determine whether there Is ewdence of
discrimination. Where evidence is found, the contractor will
promptly take corrective action If the review indicates that the
discrimination may extend beyond the actions reviewed, such
corrective action shall include all affected persons.
d. The contractor will promptly investigate all complaints of
alleged discrimination made to the contractor in connection
with its obligations under this contract, will atempt to resolve
such complaints, and will take appropriate corrective action
within a reasonable time. If the investigation indicates that the
discrimination may affect persons other than the complainant,
such corrective action shall include such other persons. Upon
completion of each investigation, the contractor wilt inform
every complainant of all of their avenues of appeal.
6. Training and Promotion:
a The contractor will assist in locating, qualifying, and
increasing the skills of minorilies and women who are
