NIH EEO Policies & Guidelines
NIH has established policies and guidelines to ensure equal employment
opportunity.
Federal EEO Regulations
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission provides enforcement, oversight, and coordination of
all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and
policies:
- Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination
based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
- Equal Pay Act of
1963, which protects men and women who perform substantially
equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination;
- Age Discrimination
in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who
are 40 years of age or older;
- Title I and Title V
of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit
employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities
in the private sector, and in state and local governments;
- Sections 501 and
505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination
against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal
government;
- Civil Rights Act of
1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in
cases of intentional employment discrimination;
- Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), which contains a number
of prohibitions, known as prohibited
personnel practices.
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