(a) Equal employment and opportunity shall be afforded by all franchisees to all qualified persons, and no person shall be discriminated against in employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, handicap, height, weight, or sex.
(b) Each franchisee shall establish, maintain and carry out a positive, continuing program of specific practices designed to assure equal opportunity in every aspect of the system’s employment policy and practice.
(c) Each franchisee shall:
(1) Define the responsibility of each level of management to insure a positive application and vigorous enforcement of policy of equal opportunity, and establish a procedure to review and control managerial and supervisory performance and appoint a manager-employee to coordinate all equal opportunity employment.
(2) Inform its employees and recognized employee organizations of the positive, equal employment opportunity policy and program and require their cooperation.
(3) Communicate the system’s equal employment opportunity policy and program and its employment needs to sources of qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, handicap, height, weight, age or sex and solicit their recruitment and assistance on a continuing basis.
(4) Conduct a continuing education program to exclude prejudice or discrimination based upon race, color, religion, national origin, age, handicap, height, weight or sex and solicit their recruitment and assistance on a continuing basis.
(5) Conduct a continuing review of job structure and employment practices and adopt positive recruitment, training, job design and other measures needed to insure genuine equality of job opportunity to participate fully in all organization units, occupations and levels of responsibility in the system.
(6) Report the racial composition of its work force and define positive steps taken to insure equal employment opportunity.
(7) Cooperate with the City’s Equal Opportunity Officer in the use and implementation of measures designed to increase minority employment in an effort to ensure equal employment opportunity.
(d) Each franchisee shall file a statement of its equal employment opportunity program with the application for the franchise.
(e) Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall be reported to the City Council by the Equal Opportunity Officer whereupon, within 30 days after notification, the franchisee shall appear before the City Council to answer such charges of noncompliance. If after 60 days following the hearing, the City Council determines that the franchisee has failed to take affirmative steps to comply with the provisions of this section, the City Council may revoke the franchise.
(Ord. 2428, passed 2-18-1974; Ord. 2899, passed 3-21-1984; Ord. 3486, passed 1-28-2002)