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January 2022 June 2017 1. Conduct periodic inspections of project sites to ensure that working conditions and employee facilities do not indicate discriminatory treatment of project site personnel. 2. Periodically evaluate the spread of wages paid within each classification to determine any evidence of discriminatory wage practices. 3. Periodically review selected personnel actions in-depth to determine whether there is evidence of discrimination. Where evidence is found, the Contractor will promptly take corrective action. If the review indicates that the discrimination may extend beyond the actions reviewed, such corrective action shall include all affected persons. 4. Promptly investigate all complaints of alleged discrimination made to the Contractor in connection with his/her obligations under this contract, will attempt to resolve such complaints, and will take appropriate corrective action within a reasonable time. If the investigation indicates that the discrimination may affect persons other than the complainant, such corrective action shall include such other persons. Upon completion of each investigation, the Contractor will inform every complainant of all of their avenues of appeal. G. Training and Promotions. 1. Assist in locating, qualifying, and increasing the skills of minority group and women workers, and applicants for employment. 2. Consistent with the Contractor’s workforce requirements and as permissible under State regulations, make full use of training programs, i.e., apprenticeship, and on-the-job training programs, for the geographical area of contract performance. Where feasible, 25 percent of apprentices or trainees in each occupation shall be in their first year of apprenticeship or training. 3. Advise employees and applicants for employment of available training programs and entrance requirements for each. 4. Periodically review the training and promotion potential of minority group and women workers and encourage eligible employees to apply for such training and promotion. H.

each. 4. Periodically review the training and promotion potential of minority group and women workers and encourage eligible employees to apply for such training and promotion. H. Unions. If the Contractor relies in whole or in part upon unions as a source of employees, the Contractor will use their good faith efforts to obtain the cooperation of such unions to increase opportunities for minority groups and women within the unions, and to effect referrals by such unions of minority and women workers. Actions by the Contractor either directly or through a Contractor’s association acting, as agent will include the procedures set forth below: 1. The Contractor will send to each labor union or representative of workers with which it has a collective bargaining agreement or other contract of understanding, a notice advising the labor union or workers’ representative of the Contractor’s commitments under both the law against discrimination and this contract and shall post copies of the notice in conspicuous places readily accessible to employees and applicants for employment. Further, the notice will request assurance from the union or worker’s representative that such union or worker’s representative will cooperate with the Contractor in complying with the Contractor’s Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action obligations. 2. The Contractor will use their best efforts to develop, in cooperation with the unions, joint training programs aimed toward qualifying more minority group members and women for membership in the unions and increasing the skills of minority group employees and women so that they may qualify for higher paying employment. 3. The Contractor will use their best efforts to incorporate an Equal Employment Opportunity clause into each union agreement to the end that such union will be contractually bound to refer applicants without regard to their age, race, color, creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or nationality. 4. The Contractor is to obtain information as to the referral practices and policies of the labor union except to the

ion, gender identity or expression, disability, or nationality. 4. The Contractor is to obtain information as to the referral practices and policies of the labor union except to the extent that such information is within the exclusive possession of the labor union and such labor unions refuse to furnish this information to the Contractor, certify to the Department and shall set forth what efforts have been made to obtain this information. 5. In the event the union is unable to provide the Contractor with a reasonable flow of minority and women referrals within the time limit set forth in the collective bargaining agreement, the Contractor will, through independent recruitment efforts, fill the employment vacancies without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, State Funded Project Attachment 2 – State Of NJ EEO Special Provisions for Wholly State Funded Projects Page 6 of 7