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Administration
City Attorney
EEO Office
PIO Office
The EEO Officer coordinates employee relations/activities between the City Manager's Office and the city work force, especially minorities, females, disabled and other under-represented groups.
Statement of EEO Policy
It is the policy of The City of Dothan to insure affirmative action in providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, creed, religion, color, sex, age, disabilities, or national origin, except where age of sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.
In the implementation of this policy The City of Dothan will among other appropriate actions:
- Recruit, test, select, hire train and promote personnel in all job classifications without regard to race, creed, religion, color, sex, age, disability, or national origin, except where age or sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.
- Base employment decisions as to further insure the principle of equal employment opportunity by imposing only valid and job-oriented requirements for promotional opportunities.
- It is the announced policy that personnel actions, such as compensation, fringe benefits, or promotional training, social or recreational programs will be administered without regard to race, color, sex religion, age, creed, disability or national origin.
Periodic analysis, at least every twelve months, will be made by the Personnel Department to insure that personnel actions are in accord with the aims and stated objective of this program.
Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws
The Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination are:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
- the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination;
- the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older;
- Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments;
- Sections 501 and 505 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities who work in the federal government; and
- the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.
City of Dothan contact person:
Gary J. Griffin, EEO/Training Officer
(334) 615-3119-Office (334) 798-3650-Cell
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