Equal Employment Opportunity
WHAT'S NEW
January - April 2009 Newsletter
SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION PROGRAM
Provides policy and guidance to the California National Guard on the prevention of sexual harassment within all National Guard personnel categories. Provides resources for training and education materials, develops training initiatives, trains trainers, and monitors training conducted.
ADR PROGRAM
The Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program encourages and promotes early conflict resolution. Develops, implements, and reviews state programs to ensure use of ADR methods and techniques as mandated by PL 104-320, ADR Act of 1996. Conducts training and assistance visits to enhance skills and proficiency in managing conflicts to faciliate settlement agreements.
Ensures compliance with ADR policy and guidance. The ADR Program is proactively designed to educate both employees and management. It uses early intervention techniques such as conciliation, mediation, interest-based negotiation, and facilitation methods to resolve conflicts in the interest of saving time and money, increasing productivity, improving morale, and preventing disputes from escalating unnecessarily.
Formal complaints can often be avoided through effective implementation and utilization of the ADR Program.
AFFIRMATIVE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
Affirmative Employment refers to workforce analysis and recruitment efforts to ensure that qualified applicants from diverse groups are included in the recruitment pool for CNG vacancies, and progress at comparable rates once employed. The selections from these applicants and their subsequent promotions are made on the sole basis of merit, but if specific groups are not well represented in the pool, the chances of the best qualified applicant being from that group decrease significantly.
Affirmative employment, steps taken to be sure that all groups are included in the pool to prevent future problems, has quite a different emphasis than affirmative action, which is generally court-mandated hiring to correct an existing problem.
There are several strong affirmative employment programs:
The Affirmative Employment Program for Women and Minorities, required by EEOC in Management Directive MD-715.
The Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Recruitment Program (FEORP), required by OPM 5 U.S.C. 7201, Part 720 of Title 5 CFR.
The Disabled Veterans Affirmative Employment Program (DVAAP), required by OPM 38 U.S.C. 4214 Part 720 of Title 5 CFR.
These programs generally require that agencies conduct a detailed analysis of relevant recruitment, employment, grade, and related personnel topics, establish goals for improving representation, and make yearly reports of progress to the requesting agency.
Title 5 Complaint Reporting
HQDA, Army Civilians Title 5 Employees: (703) 607-2736
Air Force Civilians Title 5 Employees: (202) 404-8816
SPECIAL EMPHASIS PROGRAM
Under DOD Directive 1440.1 w/Changes 1, 2 & 3, the Special Emphasis Program provides policy and guidance for all Special Emphasis Programs: Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Native American Employment Programs, the Federal Women’s Program, and the Program for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities.
These programs have been established as an integral part of the EEO Program. They are a proactive approach to achieving diversity within the technician workforce, limited only by the imagination of those charged with implementing them.
In addition the Special Emphasis Program must be actively involved in the communities we serve, for example College Outreach Programs, Adopt-a-School Programs, Partnerships with Minority Organizations i.e. (NAACP, FEW, IMAGE Inc., BIG, FAPAC) and others as applicable.
Special Emphasis Programs National Meritorious Awards
NGB Special Emphasis Program
Special Emphasis Programs
Special Emphasis Programs/Outreach Award Winners
POLICIES / MEMORANDUMS
2009 EEO Policy Memorandum
2008 POSH Policy Memorandum
2008 Consideration of Others Policy Memorandum
Affirmative Employment Program Policy
NGR (AR) 690-600 / NGR (AF) 40-1614
FORMS
NGB 713-5 Formal Discrimination Complaint
Training Request Form
EEOC Poster Request Form
EEOC Publications Request Form
EEO Complaint Process
PUBLICATIONS / REFERENCES
U.S. EEO Commission Management Directive MD-110
U.S. EEO Commission Part 1614 Federal Sector EEO
MISCELLANEOUS
Supervisor Handbook
Technician Complaint Process
Stop Discrimination in the CNG
National Organizations
LINKS
Employee Assitance Program