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January 2022 June 2017 responsibilities to provide Equal Employment Opportunity in each grade and classification of employment. To ensure that the above agreement will be met, the following actions will be taken as a minimum: a. Initial Project Site Meeting. Conduct an initial project site meeting with supervisory and personnel office employees before the start of work and then not less often than once every 6 months, at which time the Contractor’s Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and its implementation will be reviewed and explained. The EEO Officer will conduct the meetings. b. EEO Obligations. Give all new supervisory or personnel office employees a thorough indoctrination by the EEO Officer covering all major aspects of the Contractor’s Equal Employment Opportunity obligations within 30 days following their reporting for duty with the Contractor. c. All personnel who are engaged in direct recruitment for the project will be instructed by the EEO Officer in the Contractor’s procedures for locating and hiring minority and women workers. 2. Take the following actions in order to make the Contractor’s Equal Employment Opportunity Policy known to all employees, prospective employees, and potential sources of employees, i.e., schools, employment agencies, labor unions (where appropriate), college placement officers, etc. a. Place notices and posters setting forth in the Contractor’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, as set forth in Section 2 of these Equal Employment Opportunity Special Provisions in conspicuous places readily accessible to employees, applicants for employment and potential employees. b. Bring the Contractor’s Equal Employment Opportunity Policy and the procedures to implement such policy to the attention of employees by means of meetings, employee handbooks, or other appropriate channels. E. Recruitment 1. In all solicitations and advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the

y means of meetings, employee handbooks, or other appropriate channels. E. Recruitment 1. In all solicitations and advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the Contractor, the Contractor will state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran’s status, disability, nationality, or sex. All such advertisements will be published in newspapers or other publications having a large circulation among minorities and women in the area from which the project workforce would normally be derived. 2. Unless precluded by a valid bargaining agreement, conduct systematic and direct recruitment through public and private employee referral sources likely to yield qualified minority and women applicants, including, but not limited to state employment agencies, schools, colleges and minority and women organizations. Through their EEO Officer, identify sources of potential minority and women employees, and establish with such identified sources procedures whereby minority and women applicants may be referred to the Contractor for employment consideration. 3. In the event the Contractor has a valid bargaining agreement providing for exclusive hiring hall referrals, he is expected to observe the provisions of that agreement to the extent that the system permits the Contractor’s compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity contract provisions. (The US Department of Labor has held that where implementations of such agreements have the effect of discriminating against minorities or women, or obligates the Contractor to do the same; such implementation violates Executive Order 11246, as amended). 4. In the event that the process of referrals established by such a bargaining agreement fails to provide the Contractor with a sufficient number of minority and women referrals within the time period set forth in such an agreement, the Contractor shall comply with the provisions of “Section I Unions” of this “State Of New Jersey Equal Employment

ferrals within the time period set forth in such an agreement, the Contractor shall comply with the provisions of “Section I Unions” of this “State Of New Jersey Equal Employment Opportunity Special Provisions for Wholly State Funded Projects” Attachment. F. Personnel Actions. Wages, working conditions, and employee benefits shall be established and administered, and personnel actions of every type, including hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, and termination, shall be taken without regard to age, race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veterans’ status, disability, nationality, or sex. The following procedures shall be followed: State Funded Project Attachment 2 – State Of NJ EEO Special Provisions for Wholly State Funded Projects Page 5 of 7