Equity Office is committed to creating a
workplace that taps into the talent, seeks the ideas and thrives on
the different perspectives of all its employees. It is the policy of
Equity Office to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability
without discrimination against any employee or applicant for
employment because of race, religion, color, sex, disability,
national origin, age, covered veterans status, or any other
classification protected by federal, state or local law and to take
affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified
minorities, women, disabled persons, disabled veterans, and veterans
of the Vietnam era. This policy extends not only
to all terms and conditions of the employment process such as
promotion, demotion, termination, transfer, assignment, recruitment,
compensation and selection for training.
Equity Office supervisors, managerial personnel and employees are
forbidden from engaging in prohibited discrimination.
Any employee with questions or concerns about any type of
discrimination in the workplace is expected to bring these questions
or concerns to his or her immediate supervisor, certain other
individuals or Equity Office’s compliance hotline.
It is the responsibility of mangers to understand and make the terms
of this policy known to their employees and to ensure that the
policy is followed. Human Resources representatives are responsible
for ensuring consistent application of this policy. The Vice
President – Human Resources is responsible for final interpretation
and application of the procedures of this policy.