10.12- Equal Employment Opportunity Flashcards
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has implemented an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program to ensure equal opportunity for applicants and employees at all levels in testing, hiring, training, promotion, and other benefits and privileges extended through employment. This is accomplished in compliance with:
- TITLE VII OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964
- CA FAIR EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING ACT
- GC SECTIONS 12940 AND 19702(A)
__ ___ to provide equal opportunity in employment practices will be made on the basis of merit, efficiency, and fitness consistent with state civil service and merit system principles.
ALL EFFORTS
Managers and supervisors are responsible for maintaining a work environment free of discrimination and harassment and for providing _____ _____ to qualified employees with disabilities to assist them with performing the essential functions of positions.
reasonable accommodation
The Department ___ maintain a uniform process for employees and applicants to voice allegations of discrimination or retaliation and receive prompt and impartial consideration.
SHALL
The authority for coordinating, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on EEO activities has been assigned to the Department’s ___.
OFFICE OF EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY(OEEO)
All managers and supervisors are responsible and accountable to the appropriate ___ _____ for personnel practices consistent with the Department’s EEO Program.
Division chief
Managers and supervisors shall be familiar with EEO policies and shall assure the dissemination of EEO Program information to ALL employees within their command.
TRUE
Each employee is responsible for ensuring their conduct adheres to the Department’s EEO Program policies. As with all departmental policies, any employee who willingly and knowingly fails to adhere to the intent of this policy will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action, up to, and including, ___.
DISMISSAL
It is the responsibility of all employees to maintain an environment that supports the Department’s EEO policies. Failure to comply with these policies may result in ___.
DISCIPLINARY ACTION
The EEO Training program for all employees includes the following:
- EEO TRAINING FOR STAFF
- DIVERSITY TRAINING
- SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING
Employment discrimination, including harassment, based on the following protected groups is prohibited by law:
age>40, ancestry, color, disability, gender, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military/ vet status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, retaliation, sex, sexual orientation.
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and the California Code of Regulations, Title 2, prohibit harassment of employees, applicants, unpaid interns, volunteers, and persons providing services pursuant to a contract by any persons (except volunteers) and require employers to take all reasonable steps to prevent harassment.
TRUE
Harassment is defined as pervasive, persistent, unwelcome conduct which is perpetuated by an individual’s status in a protected group.
TRUE
Petty slights, annoyances, and isolated incidents, unless extremely serious, will not rise to the level of harassment. To be unlawful, the conduct must create a work environment which would be intimidating, hostile, or offensive to a ____ ______.
reasonable person
Offensive conduct may include, but is not limited to:
Verbal harassment, physical harassment, visual forms of harassment, sexual favors
An employee who engages in unlawful harassment of a coworker is personally liable for the harassment regardless of whether the employer knew or should have known of the conduct and/or failed to take appropriate corrective action.
TRUE
____ _____ means each person’s internal understanding of their gender, or the perception of a person’s gender identity, which may include male, female, a combination of male and female, neither male nor female, a gender different from the person’s sex assigned at birth, or transgender.
“Gender identity”
Military and veteran status includes a perception that a person is a veteran or member of the military or that the person is associated with someone who is a veteran or member of the military.
TRUE
There are three recognized categories of race: Negroid, Mongoloid, and Caucasoid. Within these three categories, there are approximately ______ ethnic groups.
6,000
A supervisor was “openly hostile and resentful” toward an openly gay employee because of his sexual orientation. The supervisor drew some lewd images of an openly gay employee on an office whiteboard and poster depicting his head on the body of a bikini-clad woman and circulated the poster around the office and posted it on Facebook. Would this example be considered harassment based upon sexual orientation?
YES
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and California Government Code (GC) Sections 12900 - 12996, they apply to employers with ___ or more employees, including state and local governments. Title VII also applies to employment agencies and labor organizations, including the federal government.
15
___ _____ includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when the conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual’s employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual’s work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment.
Sexual harassment
