What is an affirmative action plan or program?
A policy or a plan designed to ensure and seek to maintain non-discriminatory actions through established measures to ensure equal opportunity in employment and education and identify areas of underutilized employment of women or minorities and to use this information in recruitment outreach for women and minorities. Federal law (41 CFR 60-2.10) describes an affirmative action program as “A set of specific and result-oriented procedures to which a contractor commits itself to apply every good faith effort. The objective of these procedures and efforts is equal employment opportunity. Procedures without effort to make them work are meaningless; and effort, undirected by specific and meaningful procedures, is inadequate.
