Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 123:1-49-03 | Responsibilities of state agencies in regard to EEO.

                                                
(A) The head of each agency shall
		  establish an agency equal opportunity program which shall include an
		  affirmative action plan. Ultimate responsibility for the agency's equal
		  opportunity program rests with the agency head. Each agency shall designate an
		  agency equal employment opportunity officer who shall have sufficient knowledge
		  and experience to handle the assignment and whose functions may
		  include:
(1) Advising the head of
			 the agency with respect to the preparation of equal employment opportunity
			 programs, procedures, rules, reports, and the agency's affirmative action
			 plan.
(2) Evaluating from time
			 to time the sufficiency of the total agency equal employment opportunity
			 program and reporting thereon to the head of the agency with recommendations as
			 to any improvement or correction needed. The head of the agency shall include
			 remedial or disciplinary actions for supervisors or managers who have failed to
			 cooperate fully or who are in violation of the program.
(3) Make changes in
			 programs and procedures designed to eliminate discriminatory practices when so
			 authorized by the head of the agency.
(4) Evaluating tests,
			 employment policies, practices and qualifications and reporting to the head of
			 the agency and to the affirmative action and equal employment opportunity unit
			 any such policies, practices and qualifications which have a disparate impact
			 on minorities and women. This function shall be performed in cooperation with
			 the affirmative action and equal employment opportunity unit of the department
			 of administrative services.
(5) Providing for
			 counseling of any aggrieved employee or applicant for employment who believes
			 that he or she has been discriminated against because of race, color, religion,
			 sex, or national origin (ancestry), military status (past, present or future),
			 disability, age (forty years of age or older), genetic information, or sexual
			 orientation.
(6) Providing for receipt
			 and investigation of individual complaints of discrimination in personnel
			 matters within the agency, and for attempting to resolve the complaint raised
			 by the employee or candidate in a complaint of discrimination.
(7) Furnishing any
			 information required by the affirmative action and equal employment opportunity
			 unit, including but not limited to, monthly reports on all complaints pending
			 within the agency, including those filed with the Ohio civil rights commission
			 and the federal equal employment opportunity commission. The affirmative action
			 and equal employment opportunity unit will provide the format in which such
			 reports should be submitted.
(B) An equal employment opportunity
		  officer may be named for a group of participating agencies when the agency is
		  too small to have a full time equal employment opportunity
		  officer.
(C) The names of the equal employment
		  opportunity officers, their address, email address and telephone number, and
		  any change made in their designation shall be furnished to the affirmative
		  action and equal employment opportunity unit annually or as changes are
		  made.