Guidelines for Vocational Education Programs - VI-VIII
VI. Equal Opportunity in the Vocational Education Instructional Setting
(B) Student Financial Assistance. Recipients may not award financial assistance in the form of loans, grants, scholarships, special funds, subsidies, compensation for work, or prizes to vocational education students on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap, except to overcome the effects of past discrimination. Recipients may administer sex restricted financial assistance where the assistance and restriction are established by will, trust, bequest, or any similar legal instrument, if the overall effect of all financial assistance awarded does not discriminate on the basis of sex. Materials and information used to notify students of opportunities for financial assistance may not contain language or examples that would lead applicants to believe the assistance is provided on a discriminatory basis. If a recipient’s service area contains a community of national origin minority persons with limited English language skills, such information must be disseminated to that community in its language.
VII. Work Study, Cooperative Vocational Education, Job Placement and Apprentice Training
(A)Responsibilities in Cooperative Vocational Education Programs, Work-Study Programs, and Job Placement Programs. A recipient must insure that:
(a) it does not discriminate against its students on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in making available opportunities in cooperative education, work study and job placement programs; and
(b) students participating in cooperative education, work study and job placement programs are not discriminated against by employers or prospective employers on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap in recruitment, hiring, placement, assignment to work tasks, hours of employment, levels of responsibility, and in pay.
If a recipient enters into a written agreement for the referral or assignment of students to an employer, the agreement must contain an assurance from the employer that students will be accepted and assigned to jobs and otherwise treated without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap. Recipients may not honor any employer’s request for students who are free of handicaps or for students of a particular race, color, national origin, or sex. In the event an employer or prospective employer is or has been subject to court action involving discrimination in employment, school officials should rely on the court’s findings if the decision resolves the issue of whether the employer has engaged in unlawful discrimination.
VII. Work Study, Cooperative Vocational Education, Job Placement and Apprentice Training
(B) Apprentice Training Programs. A recipient may not enter into any agreement for the provision or support of apprentice training for students or union members with any labor union or other sponsor that discriminates against its members or applicants for membership on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap. If a recipient enters into a written agreement with a labor union or other sponsor providing for apprentice training, the agreement must contain an assurance from the union or other sponsor:
(1) that it does not engage in such discrimination against its membership or applicants for membership; and
(2) that apprentice training will be offered and conducted for its membership free of such discrimination.
VIII. Employment of Faculty and Staff
(A) Employment Generally. Recipients may not engage in any employment practice that discriminates against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of sex or handicap. Recipients may not engage in any employment practice that discriminates on the basis of race, color, or national origin if such discrimination tends to result in segregation, exclusion or other discrimination against students.
(B) Recruitment. Recipients may not limit their recruitment for employees to schools, communities, or companies disproportionately composed of persons of a particular race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap except for the purpose of overcoming the effects of past discrimination. Every source of faculty must be notified that the recipient does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, or handicap.
(D) Salary Policies. Recipients must establish and maintain faculty salary scales and policy based upon the conditions and
responsibilities of employment, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex or handicap.
(E) Employment Opportunities for Handicapped Applicants. Recipients must provide equal employment opportunities for teaching and administrative positions to handicapped applicants who can perform the essential functions of the position in question. Recipients must make reasonable accommodation for the physical or mental limitations of handicapped applicants who are otherwise qualified unless recipients can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship.
