Policies and Compliance

Sexual Violence Reporting

 

Sexual Violence Prevention Training for Students

• Unit 1: Working together to build a safe and healthy campus
  • Unit 1 with Descriptive Audio
• Unit 2: On our campus, yes means yes
  • Unit 2 with Descriptive Audio
• Unit 3: A safe and welcoming campus for all: Root causes of violence
  • Unit 3 with Descriptive Audio
• Unit 4: Relationship violence, stalking, and sexual violence
  • Unit 4 with Descriptive Audio
• Unit 5: How do campuses respond to sexual violence?
  • Unit 5 with Descriptive Audio

Policy and Procedure

Board Policy 1B.3 addresses sexual violence as an intolerable intrusion into the most personal and private rights of an individual and is prohibited. Minnesota State is committed to eliminating sexual violence in all forms and will take appropriate remedial action against any individual found responsible for acts in violation of this policy. Acts of sexual violence may also constitute violations of criminal or civil law, or other Board Policies that may require separate proceedings.

• 1B.3 Sexual Violence Policy
• 1B.3.1 Sexual Violence Procedure

State Laws

• Minnesota Human Rights Act

Federal Laws

Affirmative Action

• Executive Order 11246 〈as amended by 11375〉 - requires affirmative action programs for women and minorities and prohibits job discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 
• Executive Order 11246 (1965) - Prohibits discrimination in employment practices of Federal contractors who receive $50,000 or more in federal funds and have 50 or more employees. Requires affirmative action be taken to provide employment opportunities for qualified women and minorities.
• Section 402, Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974 - requires affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified special disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era and prohibits discrimination based on Vietnam-era veteran status or special disabled veteran status in federally assisted programs.
• Section 503, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - requires affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination based on disability in federally assisted programs.

Age

• Age Discrimination Act of 1975 - prohibits discrimination based on age in federally assisted programs.
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1964 - Prohibits discrimination in employment of individuals over 40 years of age and older, except in special circumstances.
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 - prohibits discrimination based on age in employment for employees 40 years old or older.

Disability

• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - prohibits discrimination based on disability in employment, public accommodations, public services, transportation, and telecommunications and requires provision of reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.
• Section 503, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - prohibits discrimination based on disability in federally assisted programs and requires affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.
• Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - prohibits discrimination based on disability in federally assisted programs.

• Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  Prohibits discrimination in programs receiving Federal funds on the basis of disability.

  • Section 503: Requires affirmative action be taken to provide employment opportunities for qualified persons with disabilities by employers receiving more than $2,500 or more in Federal funds.
  • Section 504: Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs receiving federal funds. Requires reasonable accommodation qualified persons with disabilities, except in cases of undue hardship is shown.
• Civil Rights Act of 1991
  Amends Civil Rights Act of 1964 by adding the protected category of "disability" and provides for appropriate remedies for intentional discrimination and unlawful harassment in the work place. The 1991 Act does not affect court-ordered remedies, affirmative action, or conciliation agreements, that are in accordance with the law.

Gender

• Equal Pay Act of 1963 - prohibits sex discrimination in payment of wages to women and men performing substantially equal work in the same establishment, i.e. substantially equal in skill, effort, and responsibility. Permissible pay discrimination under the Equal Pay Act includes circumstances in which pay differentials between men and women in the same job title are due to:
  1. seniority system,
  2. merit system,
  3. system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production, or
  4. differentials based on any other factor other than sex.
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, including pregnancy.
• Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments to the Higher Education Act  - prohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions receiving Federal funds. Covers programs and activities including students loans and scholarships, access to courses, housing, health services, athletics, career services and publications.
• Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 - prohibits discrimination in employment based on pregnancy and related conditions.

Race, Color, National Origin

• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in federally assisted programs.
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, including pregnancy.

Religion

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, including pregnancy.

Veteran Status

• Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974, Section 402 - prohibits discrimination based on Vietnam-era veteran status or special disabled veteran status in federally assisted programs and requires affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified special disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era.
• Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, Section 402 - Requires affirmative action be taken to employ Vietnam era veterans, special disabled and disabled veterans by employers receiving $10,000 or more in Federal funds. Amended in 1992 to cover all veterans.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title I and Title II Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the Minnesota State system office’s compliance with ADA Title I – Employment; and Title II – Public Services, in accordance with the ADA and Minnesota Human Rights Act.

Deb Gehrke, HR Director
Minnesota State ADA Coordinator
Deb.Gehrke@MinnState.edu  
651-201-1664