Test Legal Handbook 2022

City of Greensboro to take affirmative action to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of their status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.” Source: Personnel Policy Manual, I-2 (Full text of policy attached). City of Greensboro’s Minority/ Women Business Enterprise Program Plan is adopted to: (Amended July 1, 2019) Policy Statement - “It shall be a policy of the City of Greensboro to provide minorities and women equal opportunity to participate in all aspects of city contracting and purchasing programs.” The following M/WBE Policy is: A. Implement the City’s M/WBE Policy to remedy the ongoing effects of marketplace discrimination that the City of Greensboro has found continue to adversely affect the participation of M/WBE firms in City of Greensboro contracts. B. To exercise the spending powers of the City of Greensboro in a manner that promotes economic inclusion of all segments of the business population, regardless of race or gender, so as to maximize the economic vitality and development of the Greensboro region. C. To provide for the identification of necessary resources for the effective phased-in implementation of all Policy elements contained within the M/WBE Program as provided for within this Plan. D. To clearly communicate the City’s M/WBE Program Plan and related responsibilities to internal stakeholders within the City and to the external stakeholders within the broader community served by the City. E. To establish that the City shall resort to the use of race- and gender-conscious means for addressing disparities within its contract participation only when it is apparent that the use of neutral means alone (as provided in this Program Plan) are likely insufficient to fully remedy the effects of identified discrimination. F. It is the Policy of the City to take all necessary, reasonable and legal action to prevent discrimination and to ensure that all businesses, including M/WBEs, are afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the City’s purchasing and contracting processes.