CROSS REFERENCE: See St. Tammany Personnel Policies and Procedures being Chapter 2, Division 2, Sections 2-048.0
through 2-048.38 of the Code of Ordinances of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
SEC.
The Parish of St. Tammany through the St. Tammany Parish Police Jury adopts and will implement
this plan to fulfill Federal Highway Administration/Louisiana Department of Transportation and
Development requirements, supplementing existing plans of similar nature. (Ord. No. 81-178,
adopted 04/02/81)
SEC.
The St. Tammany Parish Council hereby adopts Attachment A as its official policy statement on
equal employment opportunity. (Attachment A was not published in the Municipal Code publication
of the Ordinances for St. Tammany, 1979-1987. It is reported to be available in the Office of the
Police Jury.) (Ord. No. 81-178, adopted 04/02/81)
SEC.
(f) The President of the Police Jury will designate an individual (for purposes of this plan, referred
to hereinafter as the EEO Officer) who will have the responsibility for, and is capable of
effectively administering and promoting an active program of equal employment opportunity
and is assigned adequate authority and responsibility to do so.
(a) The President of the Police Jury of St. Tammany Parish will in such manner and from he elects,
convey his support of the EEO policy and affirmative action plan to key officials, managers and
supervisors throughout the jurisdiction, charging each to cooperate with and assist the EEO
Officer and holding each responsible and accountable for effective EEO implementation within
their respective area of operation.
(b) All members of the Parish of St. Tammany staff and work force who are authorized to hire,
supervise, promote, recommend training, reassign, demote, discharge or otherwise
recommend, cause or are substantially involved in any change in an employee's status, will be
made fully aware of the jurisdiction's EEO policy, this affirmative action plan, and the
jurisdiction's contractual obligations, and made accountable for effective implementation within
the operational area each such person is assigned or involved in. To ensure that this
commitment is carried out and met, the following actions will be taken, as a minimum:
(1) Periodic meetings of supervisory and personnel office employees will be conducted,
beginning within forty-five (45) days of adoption of this plan and thereafter no less often
than once each year, at which times the jurisdiction's EEO policy and implementing
procedures will be reviewed, explained and discussed. Such meetings will be conducted
by the EEO Officer or other knowledgeable official.
(2) Newly hired supervisory and personnel office employees will be given a thorough
indoctrination by the EEO Officer or other knowledgeable official covering all aspects of
the jurisdiction's equal employment opportunity obligations and procedures within thirty
(30) days of their reporting for employment duties.
(3) Personnel engaged in direct recruitment activities will be instructed by the EEO Officer or
other knowledgeable official in the jurisdiction's procedures for locating and hiring
minorities, females or other groups of persons under represented in the jurisdiction's work
force.
(4) Documentation of meetings and other actions taken in fulfillment of subsections (b)(1) -
(3) above will be maintained and available for review by Federal Highway Administration,
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development authorities, upon request.
The Parish of St. Tammany has conducted, or if not, will conduct within sixty (60) days of adoption
of this plan, a thorough analysis and assessment of its organizational structure, work force
composition and personnel practices, to include:
(a) A classification plan review to correct inaccurate position descriptions and to ensure that
positions are allocated to the appropriate classifications and further, that qualification
requirements are closely job-related.
(b) Efforts to restructure jobs and establish entry level and trainee positions to facilitate and
encourage advancement within skill and occupational areas.
(c) Efforts to eliminate "dead-end" positions and/or provide paths for lateral and upward mobility.
(d) Through analysis of current work force composition by organizational units and by job
groupings to determine if minorities, women or other groupings of personnel are under
represented or disproportionately distributed, i.e., confined to certain areas of skill and
responsibility or to certain pay levels only.
(e) Identification of training needs and/or other barriers to progressive development and
advancement of employees. (Ord. No. 81-178, adopted 04/02/81)
SEC.
(a) Consistent with personnel needs (i.e., vacancies, turnover rate, shortage of applicants and/or
employees in certain skill areas, etc.) and unless precluded by a valid bargaining agreement,
the Parish of St. Tammany will conduct systematic and direct recruitment through public and
private employee referral sources likely to yield qualified minority, female and other
underrepresented group applicants. Such referral sources may include, but not be limited to,
state employment agencies, schools, colleges, trade and professional organizations and
minority group organizations. To meet this requirement, the Parish of St. Tammany will
identify and most importantly, establish effective referral procedures with a sufficient number
of such sources to ensure an adequate representation of minorities and females among
applicants referred.
(b) In the event the Parish of St. Tammany has a valid bargaining agreement providing for
exclusive referrals or a bargaining agreement providing that current employees who are union
members be given preferential consideration, the Parish of St. Tammany will observe that
agreement to the extent that the system permits the jurisdiction to comply with its equal
employment opportunity contractual obligations. (It has been held by various authorities that
where adherence to such agreements has the effect of excluding or discriminating against
minorities and/or women or obligates an employer to do so, adherence to such agreement
violates federal financial assistance requirements.)
Wages, working conditions and employee benefits will be established and administered, and
personnel actions of every type including hiring, placement, upgrading, promotion, training, transfer,
demotion, layoff and termination, shall be made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin or to handicap of an employee except where job-related factors or reasonable accommodation
for the handicapped person warrants. The following actions, as a minimum, will be taken:
(a) The EEO Officer will conduct periodic inspections of the jurisdiction's buildings and other
properties where employees work to ensure that working conditions and employee facilities do
not indicate discriminatory treatment.
(b) The EEO Officer will periodically evaluate payrolls and pay scales to determine any evidence of
discriminatory wage practices.
(c) The EEO Officer will periodically review selected personnel actions (e.g., all new hires during a
selected period, or all promotions, demotions, terminations etc., again for a selected period) to
determine whether there is evidence of discrimination (as when a disparate number of minoriti
es and/or women appear to be affected by the particular personnel action under review).
Where such evidence is found, the EEO Officer will promptly initiate appropriate corrective
action. If the review indicates that the discrimination may extend beyond the particular
action(s) reviewed, such corrective action will include all affected persons. (Ord. No. 81-178,
adopted 04/02/81)
CROSS REFERENCE: See St. Tammany Personnel Policies and Procedures being Chapter 2, Division 2, Sections 2-048.0
through 2-048.38 of the Code of Ordinances of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
SEC.
The Parish of St. Tammany through its personnel policy will establish effective procedures for
counseling of employees on Equal Employment Opportunity matters and for the receipt, investigation
and resolution of complaints filed by employees. (Ord. No. 81-178, adopted 04/02/81)
SEC.
The foregoing plan has been adopted by the St. Tammany Parish Police Jury to comply with the
requirement of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for participation in the
Off-System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program. (Ord. No. 81-178, adopted 04/02/81)
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