Commonwealth Executive Orders
- 2003-10 Equal Employment Opportunity: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for the prohibition of discrimination and affirmation of equal employment opportunity.
- 2002-5 Disability-Related Policy: establishes policy for ensuring equal opportunity to persons with disabilities.
- 2002-4 Prohibition of Sexual Harassment in the Commonwealth: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for ensuring a workplace free from sexual harassment.
Commonwealth Management Directives
- 410.10 Guidelines for Investigating and Resolving Internal Discrimination Complaints: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for investigating and resolving internal complaints of alleged discrimination. Includes form STD-486, the form for lodging a discrimination complaint.
- 410.11 Commonwealth’s Equal Employment, Outreach and Employment Counseling Program: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for the implementation of equal employment, outreach and employment counseling programs.
- 205.25 Disability-Related Employment Policy: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for ensuring equal employment opportunities for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities in all aspects of employment.
- 205.26 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title II, Subtitle A, Nondiscrimination in State and Local Government Services: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for implementing the provisions of Title II, Subtitle A of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits commonwealth agencies from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of their disabilities in the provision of agency services, programs and activities.
- 505.30 Prohibition of Sexual Harassment in Commonwealth Work Settings: establishes policy, procedures and responsibilities for ensuring a workforce free of sexual harassment.
- 505.7 Personnel Rules, Chapter 3: affirms the commonwealth’s commitment to equal employment opportunity and summarizes the commonwealth’s equal employment opportunity policies.
Commonwealth Manuals
- 410.3 Guidelines for Equal Employment Opportunity Plans and Programs: provides procedures for developing and implementing annual equal employment opportunity plans and programs.
Commonwealth Law
- Pennsylvania Human Relations Act: prohibits certain practices of discrimination in employment, education, public accommodations, housing and commercial properties because of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, disability, use of guide or support animals (because of the blindness, deafness or physical handicap of the user or because the user is a handler or trainer of guide or support animals) by employers, employment agencies, labor organizations and others.
Federal Law
- Civil Rights Act, Title VII: makes it illegal for employers of 15 or more persons to discriminate in employment situations based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person for complaining, filing a charge or participating in an investigation of employment discrimination.
- Equal Pay Act: requires all employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide equal pay for men and women if they perform equal work in the same workplace. Also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person for complaining, filing a charge or participating in an investigation of unequal pay.
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act: makes it illegal for employers of 20 or more persons from discriminating in employment situations against persons 40 years of age and older. Also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person for complaining, filing a charge or participating in an investigation of age discrimination.
- Americans with Disabilities Act, Title I: makes it illegal in the private sector and in state and local government to discriminate in employment situations against a qualified person with a disability. Also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person for complaining, filing a charge or participating in an investigation of disability discrimination. The law also requires that employers reasonably accommodate the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability.
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973: makes it illegal in federal government to discriminate in employment situations against a qualified person with a disability. Also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person for complaining, filing a charge or participating in an investigation of disability discrimination. The law also requires that employers reasonably accommodate the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability.
- Executive Order 11246, as Amended: makes it illegal for government contractors and subcontractors to discriminate in employment situations against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Also requires all federal government contractors to have written affirmative action plans.
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act: makes it illegal to discriminate in employment situations because of genetic information. Also makes it illegal to retaliate against a person for complaining, filing a charge or participating in an investigation of genetic information discrimination.