New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 3 - Executive Orders (Hugh L. Carey) › Section 3.40 - Executive order no. 40: assigning responsibilities of certain state agencies and state division of human rights for ensuring equal employment opportunity for minorities, women and the disabled in state government and establishing the governor's executive committee for affirmative action

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
In pursuit of New York State's policy against
					 discrimination as expressed in the State Constitution and the State Human
					 Rights Law, it is the responsibility of the New York State Division of Human
					 Rights to enforce the State's policy of ensuring full and equal employment
					 opportunity for minorities, women and the disabled at all levels of State
					 government.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
					 Constitution and Laws of the State of New York, I, Hugh L. Carey, Governor of
					 the State of New York, do hereby establish the following:
I. Responsibilities of State Agencies and the
				  State Division of Human Rights.
1. Each State
				  agency or department shall develop a written affirmative action program,
				  including the development of specific goals and timetables for the prompt
				  achievement of full and equal employment opportunity for minorities, women and
				  the disabled. This plan shall be submitted to the Division of Human Rights by
				  every State agency or department no later than December 1, 1976. The Division
				  of Human Rights shall review and evaluate these plans on an agency-by-agency
				  basis and, where necessary, assist the agencies in improving and implementing
				  their programs.
2. In furtherance
				  of the foregoing, the State Department of Civil Service shall provide technical
				  assistance to the Division of Human Rights and to the agencies, where
				  appropriate. The State Department of Civil Service shall submit regularly to
				  the Division of Human Rights, upon the request of the division, reports of the
				  composition of the work force of each State agency and department by sex and
				  ethnic identity, for all job categories, salary grades and civil service
				  classifications. Each State agency or department shall cooperate with the
				  Division of Human Rights by duly complying with all requests for such further
				  data as the Division of Human Rights deems necessary to effectuate the purposes
				  of this order. The Division of Human Rights shall review and evaluate these
				  reports on an agency-by-agency basis.
3. In accordance with Executive Order No. 8,
				  dated April 11, 1975, the Women's Division in the Executive Chamber shall
				  assist the Division of Human Rights and the agencies by providing its expertise
				  and guidance in areas of special sensitivity and concern to women. However, the
				  requirement in Executive Order No. 8 for biannual reports to the Governor is
				  hereby revoked and superseded by the reporting provisions of this Executive
				  Order. Agency heads shall continue to supply to the Governor any information
				  which the Governor or the Director of the Women's Division requests to
				  demonstrate implementation of Executive Order No. 8.
4. The Division of Human Rights will monitor
				  affirmative action efforts in all State agencies and provide quarterly reports
				  of those efforts to the Governor.