Roles and Responsibilities
- To implement the Department’s
equal employment opportunity program and serve as the Department’s point
of contact regarding EEO related matters.
- To review, monitor and conduct
timely inquiries into complaints of discrimination, harassment, and
retaliation to ensure the equitable and lawful treatment of all employees
and applicants.
- To monitor and evaluate all of
the Department’s activities, policies, practices and personnel actions to
ensure they are in compliance with federal and State equal employment
opportunity provisions and the Governor’s Executive Order on Fair
Employment Practices.
- To prepare position statements
in response to complaints of discrimination filed against the Department
with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity, the Maryland Commission on
Civil Rights, and the Department of Budget and Management, and any other
external EEO enforcement agency.
- To ensure all Department
employees have access to and understand the State’s EEO policies and their
rights and responsibilities. We conduct on-site visits to the Department’s
barracks, sections and units to ensure required postings are accessible to
all employees.
- To uphold the Department’s
policy of zero tolerance regarding acts of sexual harassment,
discrimination and inequitable employment practices.
- To function as an employee
relations unit; endeavoring to resolve workplace problems at the lowest
level possible, by providing employees, supervisors and
commanders/managers with training and information, mediation conferences,
referral services and other confidential assistance.