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b A O R A N G E C O U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 17, 1991 Action A ends Item # ^D SUBJECT: Equal Employment Opportunity /Affirmative Action Policy Revisions to the Orange County Personnel Ordinance DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENTS: INFORMATION CONTACT: 1 - Draft revised Article II, Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director Sections 1.0, 3.1 and 3.2 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 2 - Current Article II, Hillsborough - 732 -8181 .Sections 1.0, 3.1 and 3.2 Durham - 688 -7331 Mebane - 227 -2031 Chapel Hill - 967- 9251/968 -4501 PURPOSE: To consider revisions to the Equal Employment Opportunity /Affirmative Action section of the Orange County Personnel Ordinance. BACKGROUND: The draft revised Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action section of the Personnel Ordinance is provided as Attachment 1. Shown on Attachment 1 in the left hand column (in boldface and parentheses) is a cross reference to the affected provision in the current Personnel Ordinance. Attachment 2 is the current Equal Employment Opportunity /Affirmative Action section of the Personnel Ordinance. The revised Equal Employment Opportunity policy reflects necessary updating and includes three additions to the non - discrimination provision. The additions are sexual orientation, political affiliation and Vietnam -Era or disabled veteran status. The basis for these is as follows: SEXUAL ORIENTATION The prohibition against discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation bars discrimination against gay men, lesbian women, bisexual men and women or heterosexual men and women. This revision is presented in follow up to the 1