N.J.A.C. 4A:7 Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Chapter 7 is equal employment opportunity and affirmative action: the program structure, the Division that administers it, and the State Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace with its complaint procedure and appeal route. Subchapter 3 is the operative one for an individual, since it set
Chapter 7 is equal employment opportunity and affirmative action: the program structure, the Division that administers it, and the State Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace with its complaint procedure and appeal route. Subchapter 3 is the operative one for an individual, since it sets out how a complaint is made, investigated and appealed.
Subchapter 1. Equal Employment Opportunity
3 sections
- 4A:7-1.1 General provisionsSummary16 citing decisions
Read the last two subsections first, because that is where State and local service part company.
A preemployment application may not require an applicant to provide information covering subject matters which may be discriminatory.
- 4A:7-1.3 (Reserved)Reserved3 citing decisions
Subchapter 2. Division of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action
3 sections
State service only.
An eleven-member body appointed by the Governor, at least six of whose members are to be minorities, women and persons with disabilities, meeting at least quarterly.
- 4A:7-2.3 Appointing authority responsibilitiesSummary1 citing decision
The gap between local and State service here is the gap between may and shall.
Subchapter 3. Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace; Complaint Procedures and Appeals
4 sections
- 4A:7-3.1 State Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace (State Policy)Summary76 citing decisions
The State Policy binds State agencies, a term the rule defines to take in State departments, commissions, agencies, authorities and State colleges and universities.
- 4A:7-3.2 Model procedures for internal complaints alleging discrimination in the workplaceSummaryExplainer63 citing decisions
Five numbers carry this procedure.
- 4A:7-3.3 (Reserved)Reserved
- 4A:7-3.4 (Reserved)Reserved