New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY › Chapter 69K - EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 13:69K-1.4 - Designation of equal opportunity officer by casino licensee or casino license applicant; responsibility of chief executive officer and equal opportunity officer

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Each casino licensee or casino license
				applicant shall designate a principal member of its organization to serve as an
				equal opportunity officer. A casino license applicant shall designate its equal
				opportunity officer prior to the start of actual construction by the casino
				license applicant or by any affiliated entity of any structure or facility to
				be used as an approved casino hotel, or prior to the recruitment and employment
				of personnel necessary to undertake the business of the hotel or casino,
				whichever first occurs. The chief executive officer shall be ultimately
				responsible for ensuring that equal employment opportunity is afforded to all
				prospective and actual employees, that equal business opportunity is afforded
				to all persons, that affirmative efforts are made to recruit and employ persons
				with disabilities, and that the casino licensee or casino license applicant
				achieves full implementation of its approved EEBOP and PPHD. The equal
				opportunity officer shall be directly responsible for the organization and
				effective and continuing implementation of its approved EEBOP and PPHD. The
				position of equal opportunity officer shall require a casino key employee
				license.
(b) The responsibilities
				of the equal opportunity officer shall include, without limitation, the
				responsibility to:
1. Monitor and review all
				aspects of the personnel procedures and decisions of the casino licensee or
				casino license applicant;
2.
				Recommend in writing to the chief executive officer the suspension of any
				personnel procedure, decision, or transaction that is not consonant with the
				approved EEBOP and PPHD of the casino licensee or casino license applicant or
				with any Federal or State law regarding equal employment opportunity including,
				but not limited to, the prohibitions against discrimination and harassment
				under the Law Against Discrimination, N.J.S.A. 10:5-1 et seq.; and
3. Act as a liaison and to provide assistance
				to the Division in the enforcement of section 134 of the Act and this chapter,
				which responsibility shall include, without limitation, the obligation to
				prepare and submit such reports, documentation, and statistical information as
				the Division shall require concerning the casino licensee's or casino license
				applicant's:
i. Work force
				composition;
ii. Efforts to assure
				that equal employment opportunity is being afforded to all persons protected by
				5:12-134;
iii. Good faith efforts to
				implement its EEBOP and PPHD;
iv.
				Employment, promotion, demotion or transfer decisions;
v. Recruitment, recruitment advertising and
				union referral efforts;
vi. Rates
				of pay or other forms of compensation;
vii. Training programs and selection
				procedures;
viii. Layoff, recall or
				termination decisions; and
ix.
				Grievance procedures for, and disposition of, complaints related to equal
				employment opportunity, including discrimination and harassment, including
				sexual harassment.