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Equal Employment Opportunity - General

401.5 General

All NRCS personnel policies and practices affecting employees and applicants will be free from any discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age (40+), physical or mental disability. To ensure this, managers and supervisors will not engage in prohibited practices such as:

  1.  Failing or refusing to refer or consider applicants for employment;
  2. Limiting, segregating, or classifying employees or applicants in any way that would deprive them of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect their status;
  3. Applying different standards in the recruitment, employment, promotion, discipline, counseling, or retention of employees or applicants;
  4. Denying admission, participation, or employment in any program established to provide training, including on-the-job training and retraining;
  5. Printing, publishing, or distributing any notice, announcement, or advertisement relating to employment, training, classification, or referral that indicates any discriminatory preference or restrictions;
  6. Participating in employment-related activities held in segregated facilities or sponsored by groups or organizations that engage in discrimination;
  7. Retaliating against an employee who supports any policy or practices sanctioned in this Part or who has made a charge, testified, assisted, or otherwise participated in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing; and
  8. Engaging in other practices that restrict or make distinctions in the terms or conditions of employment.

Employees subject to the above provisions may also be subject to more stringent nondiscrimination provisions in applicable State laws.





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