What is the Citys Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy All About?
The City’s EEO Policy was created to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment by ensuring that all workplaces in City agencies are free of illegal discrimination, including harassment, based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender (including “gender identity” — which refers to a person’s actual or perceived sex, and includes self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not different from that traditionally associated with the legal sex assigned to the person at birth), age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, prior record of arrest or conviction, genetic predisposition (having something in your genes which increases the risk of your having a disease or disability), carrier status (having something in your genes which increases the risk of your children having a disease, even though you do not have it yourself), sexual orientation, or being a victim of domestic violence. The City’s EEO Policy provides an o