Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 2024
(A)
Each agency will establish
an equal opportunity program
. Ultimate responsibility for the equal opportunity program rests with the
appointing authority. Each agency
will
designate an equal employment
opportunity officer who
will have sufficient knowledge and experience to
handle the assignment and whose functions may include:
(1) Advising the appointing
authority with respect to the preparation of equal employment opportunity
programs, procedures, rules, and reports.
(2) Evaluating from
time to time the sufficiency of the total agency equal employment opportunity
program and reporting thereon to the appointing authority with recommendations as to any
improvement or correction needed. The appointing authority will
include remedial or disciplinary actions for supervisors or managers who have
failed to cooperate fully or who are in violation of the program.
(3)
Making changes in programs and procedures
designed to eliminate discriminatory practices when so authorized by the
appointing authority.
(4) Evaluating tests, employment policies,
practices and qualifications and reporting to the
appointing authority and to the
state human resources division any
such policies, practices, and qualifications
that
have a disparate impact on the protected classes set forth in rule
123:1-49-01 of the
Administrative Code. This function will be
performed in cooperation with the state human resources
division.
(5) Providing for
counseling of any employee or
applicant for employment who believes that they have been discriminated against
based on the protected classes set
forth in rule
123:1-49-01 of the
Administrative Code.
(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 requested by the state human resources division,
including but not limited to, monthly reports on all complaints pending within
the agency, including those filed with the Ohio civil rights commission
or the
federal equal employment opportunity commission. The state human resources division will
provide the format in which such reports should be submitted.
(B)
Agencies will publish the functions, rules, and activities
of the agency by posting the following information on official bulletin boards
and agency websites:
(1)
The contact information for the state equal employment
opportunity officer.
(2)
The names and addresses of the agency equal employment
opportunity officers and that they are available to assist employees or
candidates for employment who believe they have been discriminated against
because of the classes set forth in rule
123:1-49-01 of the
Administrative Code.
(3)
The right of each employee and candidate for employment
who believes that he or she has been discriminated against because of the
classes set forth in rule
123:1-49-01 of the
Administrative Code to file a complaint.
(4)
The complaint
procedure and time limits for such complaints as established by this
chapter.
(C) An equal employment
opportunity officer may be named for a group of participating agencies when the
agency is too small to have an
equal employment opportunity
officer.
(D) The names of the
equal employment opportunity officers, their address, email address,
telephone
number, and any change made in their designation will be
furnished to the state human
resources division annually or as changes are made.