[Code 1964, § 10 1/2-11]
To further the affirmative action program, the City adopts the
following employment goals:
(1) The City shall not deny employment to any qualified person because
of race, color, sex, creed, national origin, age or marital status.
(2) The City shall encourage its officers to employ and promote members
of minority groups.
(3) The City, through its officers, shall foster the hiring of members
of minority groups as trainees so that the trainees' skills will
be enhanced enabling them to qualify for higher paying jobs.
(4) The City shall take appropriate steps to further the program which
will include the following:
a. Noting in job advertisements that the City is an equal opportunity
employer.
b. Maintaining records of job applications so that the application of
any person seeking a City job is kept on file for at least two years.
c. Encouraging City unions to cooperate to further the City's affirmative
action program.
d. Encouraging minority and human relations organizations to refer qualified
minority and low-income persons for City employment.
e. Disseminating to the Chairperson of the Planning Board and to all
City department heads copies of the "701 Affirmative Action Program,"
such copies to be made available to any City employee upon request.
f. Disseminating to minority organizations announcements of civil service
tests.
g. Negotiating to include nondiscriminatory clauses in City union contracts.
h. Enumerating, at least annually, City minority employment vis-a-vis
total City employment, and such enumeration shall be similarly conducted
for each City department.
i. When vacancies occur, by contacting schools, colleges, universities
and minority organizations to recruit minority employees.
j. When training programs are established such as those under the intergovernmental
personnel act, to attempt to enroll minority employees to improve
their potential for promotion.
k. Maintaining employee records for at least three years.
l. Posting, in conspicuous places, notice that the City is an equal
opportunity employer.
m. Adhering to goals designed to eliminate under utilization of minorities
in the City's work force, such goals being to employ members
of minorities in such job categories and in such numbers as they would
reasonably be expected to be employed.
[Code 1964, § 10 1/2-14]
Any formal complaint or appeal relating to the affirmative action
program shall be made in writing to the City Commission on Human Relations
which shall investigate the complaint and submit its findings to the
contract-awarding agency or board which shall have the power to terminate
contracts for willful and derelict action or inaction contrary to
that pledged in the contractor's affirmative action program.