Illinois Administrative Code › Title 56 - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT › Part 2520 - PROCEDURES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS › Subpart H - EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BY STATE EXECUTIVE AGENCIES › Section 2520.700 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this Subpart, the following terms shall have
				  the meanings indicated:
Affirmative Action Group - any of the groups listed in
				  Section
				  2520.720
				  or
				  2520.730.
Agency - any instrumentality or facility of the executive
				  branch of State government, as specified in Section
				  2520.710.
Central Management Services or CMS - the Department of
				  Central Management Services or any successor agency responsible for its
				  functions.
Chief Executive Officer - the director or other chief
				  executive or administrator of any agency other than the Department.
Disability - as used in Section 2-105(B) of the Act and this
				  Subpart, long-lasting impairment of physical, mental, hearing, cognition,
				  ambulation, self care, independent living or other functions.
EEO - Equal Employment Opportunity.
EEO/AA - Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative
				  Action.
EEO Job Categories - the following 8 categories:
				  officials/managers; professionals; paraprofessionals; technicians;
				  office/clerical workers; protective services workers; skilled craft workers;
				  and service/maintenance workers.
EEO Officer - the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer,
				  whether full or part-time, appointed by a State agency pursuant to Section
				  2-105(B)(4) of the Act and Section
				  2520.780
				  of this Part.
Layoff - the placement of an employee in non-paid and
				  non-working status without prejudice, either temporarily or for an
				  indeterminate length of time. Layoff does not include, either temporarily or
				  indeterminately, a means or form of discipline.
Minority - those groups, or members of a group, listed in
				  Section
				  2520.720
				  or 2520.730, other than women and disabled persons.
Numerical Goals - the number of members of an affirmative
				  action group that have been determined to be available to an agency for
				  employment in each of the EEO job categories.
Petitioning Group - a chartered not-for-profit organization
				  that is recognized by the community it purports to represent that has as its
				  purpose fostering the interests and well being of that community.
Plan - an affirmative action plan for employment as described
				  in Section
				  2520.760.
Program Goals - a set of actions established to address
				  affirmative action or EEO problems cited in the agency's plan.
Promotable - agency employees who, within the fiscal year,
				  under standard employment practices, are able to move from one of the EEO job
				  categories to another.
Reasonable Accommodation - as it relates to disabled
				  employees and applicants, modification of the work site, work process and/or
				  work schedule to enable a disabled person to perform the major functions of a
				  specific job; however, such an accommodation cannot impose an undue hardship on
				  the conduct of the business of the employer or labor organization.
Region - a group of adjacent counties. There are 11 regions
				  within Illinois, which will be reduced to 10 regions as identified in Appendix
				  D, effective July 1, 2015.
Trainable - agency employees who, within the fiscal year, are
				  eligible for participation in established training programs that, when
				  completed, would allow them to move from one of the EEO job categories to
				  another.
Transferable - agency employees eligible for transfer within
				  the fiscal year from one region to another.
Underutilized Category - a category in which the number of
				  employed members of an affirmative action group for which numerical goals have
				  been set does not reflect the availability of that group in the agency
				  workforce in that EEO job category.