Equal Opportunity Employment
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Title I Equal Opportunity Information
Frederick County Workforce Services’ programmatic Equal Opportunity commitment and obligations under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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Equal Opportunity Commitment
Frederick County Workforce Services and the partners of the Frederick County American Job Center are committed to Equal Opportunity and non-discrimination when providing programs and services to Frederick County residents. Section 188 of WIOA prohibits the exclusion of any individual from participation in, denial of the benefits of, discrimination in, or denial of employment in the administration or connection with any programs and activities funded or otherwise financially assisted in whole or in part under Title I of WIOA because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, transgender status, and gender identity) national origin (including Limited English Proficiency (LEP)), age, disability, or political affiliation or belief, or for the beneficiaries, applicants, and participants only, on the basis of citizenship status, or participation in a program or activity that receives financial assistance under Title I of WIOA.
Program Accessibility and Accommodations
Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. Please contact us to request an auxiliary aid, service or reasonable accommodation at 301.600.2255 or via email at fcws@frederickworks.com. For TDD/TTY users, please dial Maryland Relay Service at 7-1-1 and then ask for 301.600.2255.
Equal Opportunity is the Law
It is against the law for this recipient of Federal financial assistance to discriminate on the following bases: against any individual in the United States, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, sex stereotyping, transgender status, and gender identity), national origin (including limited English proficiency), age, disability, or political affiliation or belief, or, against any beneficiary of, applicant to, or participant in programs financially assisted under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, on the basis of the individual’s citizenship status or participation in any WIOA Title I–financially assisted program or activity.
The recipient must not discriminate in any of the following areas: deciding who will be admitted, or have access, to any WIOA Title I–financially assisted program or activity; providing opportunities in, or treating any person with regard to, such a program or activity; or making employment decisions in the administration of, or in connection with, such a program or activity.
Recipients of federal financial assistance must take reasonable steps to ensure that communications with individuals with disabilities are as effective as communications with others. This means that, upon request and at no cost to the individual, recipients are required to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services to qualified individuals with disabilities.
What to do if you Believe You Have Experienced Discrimination
If you think that you have been subjected to discrimination under a WIOA Title I–financially assisted program or activity, you may file a complaint within 180 days from the date of the alleged violation with either: recipient’s Equal Opportunity Officer (or the person whom the recipient has designated for this purpose)
Robert Gunter, Equal Opportunity Officer
200 Monroe Ave., Suite #1, Frederick, MD 21701
Email: bob@blueops.us; Telephone: 240.490.9850
or
Director, Civil Rights Center (CRC), U.S. Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-4123, Washington, DC 20210
Or electronically as directed on the CRC website.
If you file your complaint with the recipient, you must wait either until the recipient issues a written Notice of Final Action, or until 90 days have passed (whichever is sooner), before filing with the Civil Rights Center (see address above). If the recipient does not give you a written Notice of Final Action within 90 days of the day on which you filed your complaint, you may file a complaint with CRC before receiving that Notice. However, you must file your CRC complaint within 30 days of the 90-day deadline (in other words, within 120 days after the day on which you filed your complaint with the recipient). If the recipient does give you a written Notice of Final Action on your complaint, but you are dissatisfied with the decision or resolution, you may file a complaint with CRC. You must file your CRC complaint within 30 days of the date on which you received the Notice of Final Action.