Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The head of each agency shall establish
an agency equal opportunity program which shall include an affirmative action
plan. Ultimate responsibility for the agency's equal opportunity program rests
with the agency head. Each agency shall designate an agency equal employment
opportunity officer who shall have sufficient knowledge and experience to
handle the assignment and whose functions may include:
(1) Advising the head of the agency with
respect to the preparation of equal employment opportunity programs,
procedures, rules, reports, and the agency's affirmative action plan.
(2) Evaluating from time to time the
sufficiency of the total agency equal employment opportunity program and
reporting thereon to the head of the agency with recommendations as to any
improvement or correction needed. The head of the agency shall include remedial
or disciplinary actions for supervisors or managers who have failed to
cooperate fully or who are in violation of the program.
(3) Make changes in programs and procedures
designed to eliminate discriminatory practices when so authorized by the head
of the agency.
(4) Evaluating
tests, employment policies, practices and qualifications and reporting to the
head of the agency and to the affirmative action and
equal employment opportunity unit any such policies, practices and
qualifications which have a disparate impact on minorities and women. This
function shall be performed in cooperation with the
affirmative action and equal employment opportunity
unit of the department of administrative services.
(5) Providing for counseling of any aggrieved
employee or applicant for employment who believes that he or she has been
discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
(ancestry), military status (past, present or future), disability, age (forty
years of age or older), genetic information, or sexual orientation.
(6) Providing for receipt and investigation
of individual complaints of discrimination in personnel matters within the
agency, and for attempting to resolve the complaint raised by the employee or
candidate in a complaint of discrimination.
(7) Furnishing any information required by
the affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity unit, including but not limited to, monthly
reports on all complaints pending within the agency, including those filed with
the Ohio civil rights commission and the federal equal employment opportunity
commission. The affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity unit will provide the format in which such reports
should be submitted.
(B)
An equal employment opportunity officer may be named for a group of
participating agencies when the agency is too small to have a full time equal
employment opportunity officer.
(C)
The names of the equal employment opportunity officers, their address, email
address and telephone number, and any change made in their designation shall be
furnished to the
affirmative action and equal
employment opportunity unit annually or as changes are made.
