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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) - EEO Purpose: Ensures that all persons can work and advance based on merit, ability, and potential,
without being restricted by illegal discriminatory employment practices. - Federal Law Requirements: - The Postal Service must a...
EEO Training Already Graded A+
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
- EEO Purpose: Ensures that all persons can work and advance based on merit, ability, and potential,
without being restricted by illegal discriminatory employment practices.
- Federal Law Requirements:
- The Postal Service must afford equal opportunity to all persons regardless of:
- ✔️ Race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, gender stereotyping, and sexual
orientation, as well as age (40 and over).
- ✔️ National origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military service obligations,
and retaliation for EEO activity.
Types of Discrimination
- Types:
- ✔️ Disparate treatment: Inconsistent application of rules to one group over another.
- ✔️ Disparate impact: Focuses on the effect of a neutral employment policy disadvantaging a
protected class.
- Perceptions of Disparate Treatment: Often leads to complaints, particularly concerning job
assignments, employment conditions, training, promotional opportunities, and corrective actions.
### Accommodations
- Definition: A change or adjustment to the workplace for a medical condition or religion-related
reasons.
- Examples of Disability Accommodation:
- Making existing facilities accessible.
, - Job restructuring.
- Part-time or modified work schedules.
- Acquiring or modifying equipment.
- Changing training materials and workplace policies.
- Religious Accommodation: Related to work schedules, dress and grooming, or religious
expression/practice at work.
### Workplace Harassment
- Definition: Unwelcome verbal or physical conduct that demeans or shows hostility toward individuals
based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or retaliation for
EEO activity.
- Types of Harassment:
- ✔️ Quid pro quo harassment: Latin for "something for something," involves trading personal
decisions for personal gain.
- ✔️ Hostile work environment: A pattern of unwelcome behavior that unreasonably interferes with
work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
### Supervisor Responsibilities
- Responsibilities:
- Identify and stop potentially harmful behavior.
- Ensure staff awareness of Postal Service policy on workplace harassment.
- Enforce Postal Service policy.
- Initial Management Inquiry Process (IMIP):
- Investigations of harassment are conducted through this process, referenced in Publication 552
Manager's Guide to Understanding, Investigating, and Preventing Harassment.
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