The County of San Diego adopts the following County of San Diego Affirmative Action Plan, which sets forth those good-faith efforts to be undertaken by a vendor in complying with the Affirmative Action Program:
(a) The vendor shall notify local organizations that the vendor has employment opportunities available and shall maintain records of the organization's responses.
(b) The vendor shall maintain a file of the names and addresses of each disabled applicant referred to the vendor and what action was taken with respect to each such referred applicant. If such applicant was not sent to the union hiring hall for referral, or if such applicant was not employed by the vendor, the vendor's file should document this and the reasons therefor.
(c) The vendor shall notify the Director when the union or unions with whom the vendor has a collective bargaining agreement have not referred to the vendor a disabled worker sent for by the vendor or the vendor has other information that the union referral process has impeded the vendor's effort to meet the established goals.
(d) The vendor shall participate in affirmative action training programs in the area, especially those funded by the County, State and Federal governments.
(e) The vendor shall disseminate the vendor's Affirmative Action Policy within the vendor's own organization by including it in any policy manual, by publicizing it in company newspapers, annual reports, and other company publications, by conducting staff, employee and union representatives' meetings to explain and discuss the policy; by posting the policy, and by specific review of the policy with disabled employees.
(f) The vendor shall disseminate the vendor's Affirmative Action Policy externally by informing and discussing it with all recruitment sources, by advertising in news media, specifically including disabled persons' news media, by notifying and discussing it with all local disabled persons' organizations and subcontractors.
(g) The vendor shall make specific and constant personal written and oral recruitment efforts directed at all local disabled organizations; schools with disabled students; disabled persons' recruitment organizations; and disabled persons' training organizations.
(h) The vendor shall make specific efforts to encourage present disabled employees to recruit their friends and relatives.
(i) The vendor shall insure that all employee specifications, selection requirements, tests, medical examinations, and other employee recruitment or evaluation procedures do not discriminate against disabled persons in application or effect.
(j) The vendor shall make every effort to provide after school, summer and vacation employment to disabled youths.
(k) Where reasonable, the vendor shall develop on-the-job training opportunities and participate and assist in any association or employer group training programs relevant to the vendor's needs.
(l) The vendor shall continually inventory and evaluate all disabled personnel for promotion opportunities and encourage disabled employees to seek such opportunities.
(m) The vendor shall make sure that seniority practices, job classifications, rates of pay and other forms of compensation, and other employee practices and classifications do not have an unlawfully discriminatory effect on disabled employees.
(n) The vendor shall make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified disabled applicant or employee including job restructuring, part-time or modification of equipment or devices, the provision of readers or interpreters, and other similar actions unless the vendor can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the program.
(o) The vendor shall make certain that all facilities normally used concurrently by all employees and all company activities are nonsegregated, and accessible to and usable by disabled persons.
(p) The vendor shall continually monitor all personnel activities to insure that this County of San Diego Affirmative Action Plan is being carried out.
(q) The vendor shall solicit and maximize the utilization of disabled-owned businesses as subcontractors depending upon availability, including notification of disabled contractor groups and associations.
The vendor's and subcontractor's commitment to attain the current goals of disabled utilization as required by the Affirmative Action Program shall constitute a commitment to make good-faith efforts to meet said Affirmative Action Program goals. If a vendor or subcontractor has failed therein, "good-faith" compliance will be determined by the extent of vendor or subcontractor efforts, in accordance with the County of San Diego Affirmative Action Plan, to meet the Affirmative Action Program goals.
(Amended by Ord. No. 4490 (N.S.), effective 5-1-75; amended by Ord. No. 4721 (N.S.), effective 7-22-76; amended by Ord. No. 5099 (N.S.), effective 3-16-78; amended by Ord. No. 6050 (N.S.), effective 6-11-81; amended by Ord. No. 6779 (N.S.), effective 6-7-84; amended by Ord. No. 7359 (N.S.), effective 9-17-87; amended by Ord. No. 8836 (N.S.), effective 11-6-97; amended by Ord. No. 8915 (N.S.), effective 7-3-98, operative 7-3-98; amended by Ord. No. 10574 (N.S.), effective 12-13-18)