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Equal Employment Opportunity - Objectives

401.4 Objectives
  
NRCS will:
  1. Provide equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age (40+), physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital or family status, political beliefs, parental status, or protected genetic information in its policies, practices, and working conditions;
     
  2. Encourage employees to fully develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities through on-the-job training, work study, and other measures, so that they may perform at their highest potential and advance in accordance with their abilities;
     
  3. Take affirmative action to eliminate under representation of minorities, women, and persons with disabilities who have not participated in the workforce in representative numbers because of past statutory, economic, or social restrictions;
     
  4. Develop positive working relationships with special interest organizations and educational institutions to improve conditions that affect employability, and inform these groups of employment opportunities;
     
  5.  Counsel employees and applicants who believe they have been subjected to discrimination; and
     
  6. Attempt resolutions of all discrimination complaints promptly and impartially in the informal stage.
     

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