BUSINESS - PRACTICE 4

Equal Opportunity Compliance

WHAT

TVA is committed to providing and supporting equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age or disability.

WHO

• All employees, former employees, or applicants

WHY

Federal laws and executive orders require equal opportunity (EO) in TVA and prohibit unlawful discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, or retaliation for EO participation.

HOW

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMPLIANCE

TVA provides equal opportunity to all employees by:

• Promoting equal opportunity in all TVA policies, procedures and employment practices, and
• Administering the Equal Employment Opportunity Program and complaint procedure as mandated by federal law.

Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint Procedure

Employees who believe they, or the class they propose to represent, have been discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or retaliation should contact an equal employment opportunity counselor within 45 days of the date of the matter alleged to be discriminatory or, in the case of a personnel action, within 45 days of the effective date of the action.

ROLES

Equal Employment Opportunity Counselors

• Attempt informal resolution of the employment matter.
• Inform employees or applicants in writing of their rights and responsibilities.

Equal Opportunity Compliance Staff

• Serves as the agency's point of contact and liaison with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
• Assists managers' implementation of the agency's Equal Employment Opportunity Program.
• Develops and implements all policies and procedures for processing informal and formal complaints during the counseling, mediation, investigation and analysis stages of processing.
• Oversees the agency's Alternative Dispute Resolution Process (mediation) for equal employment opportunity disputes.
• Provides technical assistance to counselors, mediators and organizations in mediation and negotiation techniques to facilitate the resolution of informal/formal complaints.
• Investigates formal complaints of discrimination.
• Renders final agency decisions on formal complaints of discrimination.
• Directs remedial action in equal employment opportunity cases.
• Reviews, evaluates and recommends to the Senior Vice President, Education, Training and Diversity, the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors changes in the substance of personnel and employment programs, practices, policies or procedures that will eliminate discriminatory practices and improve TVA's program for equal employment opportunity.

Supervisors/Managers/Human Resource Representatives

• Ensure equal employment opportunity in their organization.

 

RESOURCES

• Human Resource Representatives
• Diversity Managers
• EOC Manager of Investigations
• EOC Manager of Analysis and Review

 

Questions regarding Equal Opportunity Compliance:

Director of Equal Opportunity Compliance - 865/632-2515

Equal Employment Opportunity Counselors

There is an equal employment opportunity counselor for each TVA organization. The human resource representative or the Director of Equal Opportunity Compliance can tell employees who to contact for their organization.

This practice is based on various Board actions.

 

Last Revised 11/1998