(a) Council formally declares that the City must hire and promote its employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or handicap (except where age or handicap would be an obvious and bona fide obstacle to expected and required job performance), and furthermore must continue to recruit, hire and develop the best qualified persons available for the jobs involved, basing its judgment on job related qualifications.
(b) Artificial barriers of personal attitudes and customs cannot be permitted to have effect in matters of employment practices.
(c) The City pledges itself to ensure that all activities relative to recruitment, hiring and promoting will be undertaken to effect the principle of equal opportunity and that only valid requirements will be imposed when promotional opportunities exist. Further, all matters related to compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, recall from layoff and training will be free from any and all discriminatory practices.
(d) The Director of Human Resources will have the responsibility for the implementation of a written City Affirmative Action Plan to be issued by the Mayor and detailing the positive action steps the City will take to assure equal employment opportunity, consistent with the mandate of this section.
(e) When outside sources of recruitment are utilized, they will be informed that the City is an equal opportunity employer and that legal advertisements for bids shall include the wording “AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER” and that equal opportunity clauses shall be included in all major single purchase orders, leases and contracts, for fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more.
(f) The Clerk of Council is hereby directed to post, and/or otherwise make publicly available, a copy of this section on all departmental bulletin boards and to provide a copy of this section to all employees of the City.
(Ord. 2011-043. Passed 4-4-11.)