Facilities Management Services
DIRECTIVE NO. 103 DATE: September 1, 1995
SUBJECT: Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Sexual Harassment, and AIDS
DISTRIBUTION: A
NEXT REVIEW DATE: June, 2001
POSITION RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEW: Deputy AVP
PURPOSE: To establish a policy and procedure for equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, sexual harassment in the workplace, and AIDS, and the procedures by which FMS implements those policies.
BACKGROUND: In REFERENCE 1, Carnegie Mellon University annually publishes reaffirmations of its equal employment opportunity and affirmative action policies. In every publication intended for an audience where discrimination might be perceived as an issue or as a potential barrier to fair treatment, Carnegie Mellon includes a Statement of Assurance that it does not discriminate in areas that include employment and the administration of its programs and activities. In REFERENCE 2, the published employment-related guide for staff members, Carnegie Mellon states its policies regarding affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, and its policy against sexual harassment; it also presents there the processes by which its actions are guided, and the resources through which redress of grievances in these areas is available to members of the campus community. In REFERENCE 3, the president issued an updated Policy Against Sexual Harassment and presented the resources available to address the issues involved therein. REFERENCE 4 documents the university's view of AIDS as a chronic illness and protects from discrimination or harassment any person known or believed to carry the HIV. In REFERENCE 5, the university has agreed on non-discrimination in Article 27, and on procedures for addressing grievances by members of Service Employees' International Union Local 29. REFERENCE 6 documents the university’s requirement to include the Statement of Assurance in all university publications where necessary or appropriate.
POLICY: FMS policy is to implement university policies regarding equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, sexual harassment, and AIDS, and to support substantively the university's assurances that it does not discriminate and does not permit harassment. FMS policy is to protect, from reprimand or retaliation of any sort, any FMS staff member who initiates an inquiry, complaint, or grievance, in good faith, under these policies and procedures, to which FMS is committed.
PROCEDURES: Procedures and resources presented in the university documents cited in REFERENCES 1, 2, 3, and 4 apply in full to all members of the FMS staff, including bargaining unit members and non-members alike. FMS supervisors, managers, directors, and the AVP implement those procedures according to their terms, and allow reasonable amounts of time for the people they supervise to pursue the protections afforded them by those procedures.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. FMS staff members are responsible for supporting the broad-based, decentralized efforts of the campus community to provide equal employment opportunity, to engage in affirmative action, and to create a learning and working environment that is free of the fear of sexual harassment and of harassment based on actual or believed HIV infection.
2. FMS supervisors, managers, directors, and the AVP are responsible for implementing the university's policies and adhering to its procedures for basing all personnel actions on the principles of non-discrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action. Also, they are responsible for providing a workplace that is free of the fear of sexual harassment and of harassment based on actual or believed HIV infection.
REFERENCES:
1. Policy Memo to Campus Community from Jared L. Cohon on University Policy on Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, dated September 21, 1998
2. Human Resources: A Guide, effective September 1, 1994
3. Memo to Campus Community from Robert Mehrabian on Sexual Harassment dated April 30, 1997
4. Policy on AIDS dated February 7, 1992
5. AGREEMENT between Carnegie Mellon University and Service Employees' International Union, AFL-CIO, Pittsburgh Local 29, effective July 1, 1997
CANCELLATION(S): None
SIGNATURE: Oscar H. Mayer ATTACHMENT(S): None
Deputy to the Assistant Vice President