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Contract Compliance - Equal Opportunity Contract Compliance
The program objectives of the equal employment opportunity contract compliance are:
- To ensure that contractors do not discriminate in employment and contracting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or sex.
- NCDOT is responsible for enforcing the required EEO contract provisions on a contract by contract basis in accordance with Title 23 USC 140, FHWA 1273 and Executive Order 11246.
- To ensure nondiscrimination in the hiring, employment practices and subcontracting of primes and subcontractors involved in the highway program.
- Vendors and suppliers are subject to the federal contract provisions whenever they hold contracts where Federal aid funds are involved in excess of $10,000.
The equal opportunity contract compliance process is the means for determining whether a firm performing on Federal or Federal aid highway contracts is in compliance with its Equal Opportunity program requirements. The contract compliance program involves objectively applying analytical approaches to all pertinent evidence and information in making this determination of compliance. In the event non-compliance is found, a systematic process to obtain and ensure compliance must be applied.
Good faith efforts must be demonstrated in the following areas:
- Contractor's EEO Policy
- Dissemination of the EEO Policy
- Authority and Responsibility of EEO Officer
- Periodic EEO meetings (EEO indoctrination)
- Notices/posters on bulletin board
- Advertising as an "EEO Employer"
- Systematic and direct recruitment likely to yield minority and women employees
- Educate all new supervisors on EEO responsibilities
- Encourage employees to refer minorities and women
- Evaluates wages to eliminate discrimination
- Investigate all complaints
- Increasing skills of minorities and women
- Advises employees and applicants of training opportunities
- Ensure non-segregated facilities
- Minorities and women employed in all occupations, crafts, and job classifications on an equal basis
- Contractor solicits bids from and utilize DBE subcontractors and or suppliers or subcontractors with meaningful minority and female representation
- Monitor subcontractors’ compliance with nondiscrimination, EO, EEO obligations
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