A. A grantee shall not refuse to hire, nor discharge from employment, nor discriminate against any person regarding compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of age, sex, race, color, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, marital status, or handicap. Each grantee shall take affirmative action to insure that employees are treated during employment in a nondiscriminatory manner. This condition includes, but is not limited to, the following: recruitment advertising, employment interviews, employment, rates of pay, upgrading, transfer, demotion, lay-off and termination. Provided, further, grantee shall strictly adhere to the equal employment opportunity regulations of the FCC and to all federal, state and local laws and executive orders pertaining to discrimination, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.
B. Each grantee shall exercise its best effort to maximize equal employment opportunity for minorities and women. To this end, grantee shall make available to qualified minorities and women apprenticeship training programs providing training classes and on-the-job experience in appropriate entry level jobs.
C. Each franchise granted hereunder shall ensure minority and female participation in the work force of the grantee. The goal of each grantee with respect to minority employment shall be parity with the population of minorities in relation to the general population of the city. Applicants for franchises shall detail the means to be employed to achieve this goal in all job categories.
D. A copy of each grantee's equal employment opportunity program and any subsequent modifications thereto and a copy of its annual employment report (FCC Form 395) shall be filed with the cable administrator within ten days of its submission to FCC. Each franchise granted hereunder shall insure minority and female participation in the work force of a grantee.
E. Each grantee shall exercise its best effort to insure that local minority-owned businesses receive a fair and substantial share of the economic benefits forthcoming from the development of cable systems in the city. To this end, applications for franchises shall contain proposals for the participation of local qualified minority enterprises in the award of contracts by the grantee for construction, installation, the provision of materials and supplies for the construction and operation of its cable system. Such proposals shall be incorporated into the franchise as granted and shall be binding on the grantee.
(Prior code § 113.1-53; Amend Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 4-24-12, p. 23998, § 1)
Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-24-12, p. 23998, § 1, repealed former § 4-280-450 and renumbered this section, which was formerly § 4-280-530, as § 4-280-450.