Section 1020-V. Equal employment opportunity and minority and women owned business enterprise programs

1.  All  contracts  entered  into  by  the  authority  pursuant  to  this title of whatever nature and all documents
  soliciting bids or proposals therefor shall contain or make reference to
  the following provisions:
    (a)  The  contractor  will  not  discriminate  against  employees   or
  applicants  for  employment  because  of  race,  creed,  color, national
  origin, sex, age, disability, or marital status, and will  undertake  or
  continue existing programs of affirmative action to ensure that minority
  group   persons   and  women  are  afforded  equal  opportunity  without
  discrimination. Such programs shall include,  but  not  be  limited  to,
  recruitment, employment, job assignment, promotion, upgrading, demotion,
  transfer,   layoff,   termination,  rates  of  pay  or  other  forms  of
  compensation, and  selection  for  training  and  retraining,  including
  apprenticeship and on-the-job training.
    (b) At the request of the authority, the contractor shall request each
  employment  agency, labor union, or authorized representative of workers
  with which  it  has  a  collective  bargaining  or  other  agreement  or
  understanding  and  which is involved in the performance of the contract
  with the authority to furnish a written statement that  such  employment
  agency,  labor union or representative shall not discriminate because of
  race, creed, color, national origin, sex,  age,  disability  or  marital
  status  and  that  such  union  or  representative will cooperate in the
  implementation of the contractor's obligations hereunder.
    (c) The contractor shall state, in all solicitations or advertisements
  for  employees  placed  by  or  on  behalf  of  the  contractor  in  the
  performance  of  the  contract  with  the  authority  that all qualified
  applicants  will  be  afforded  equal  employment  opportunity   without
  discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age,
  disability or marital status.
    (d)  The  contractor  will  include  the  provisions of paragraphs (a)
  through (c) of this subdivision in every subcontract or  purchase  order
  in  such  a  manner  that  such  provisions  will  be  binding upon each
  subcontractor or vendor as to its work in connection with  the  contract
  with the authority.
    2.  The  authority shall establish measures, procedures and guidelines
  to ensure  that  contractors  and  subcontractors  undertake  meaningful
  programs  to  employ  and  promote  qualified minority group members and
  women. Such procedures may require after notice in a  bid  solicitation,
  the  submission  of  a  minority and women workforce utilization program
  prior to the award of any contract, or at any time thereafter,  and  may
  require  the  submission of compliance reports relating to the operation
  and  implementation  of  any  workforce  utilization   program   adopted
  hereunder.    The  authority  may take appropriate action, including the
  impositions of sanctions for non-compliance to effectuate the provisions
  of this section and shall be responsible for monitoring compliance  with
  this title.
    3. In the performance of projects pursuant to this title, minority and
  women-owned  business  enterprises  shall  be  given the opportunity for
  meaningful participation. The  authority  shall  establish  quantifiable
  standards and measures and procedures to secure meaningful participation
  and  identify  those  contracts and items of work for which minority and
  women-owned  business  enterprises  may  best  bid   to   actively   and
  affirmatively  promote and assist their participation in projects, so as
  to  facilitate  the  award  of  a  fair  share  of  contracts  to   such
  enterprises;  provided,  however,  that  nothing  in this title shall be
  construed to limit the ability of the authority to assure that  qualifed
  minority  and  women-owned  business  enterprises may participate in the

  program. For purposes hereof, minority business  enterprise  shall  mean
  any business enterprise which is at least fifty-one per centum owned by,
  or  in  the  case  of  a publicly owned business, at least fifty-one per
  centum  of  the  stock  or other voting interest is owned by citizens or
  permanent resident aliens  who  are  Black,  Hispanic,  Asian,  American
  Indian, Pacific islander, or Alaskan native, and such ownership interest
  is   real,   substantial   and  continuing  and  has  the  authority  to
  independently control the day to day business decisions  of  the  entity
  for  at  least  one year; and women-owned business enterprise shall mean
  any business enterprise which is at least fifty-one per centum owned by,
  or in the case of a publicly owned  business,  at  least  fifty-one  per
  centum  of  the  stock  to  other  voting interests of which is owned by
  citizens or permanent resident aliens who are women, and such  ownership
  interest  is  real,  substantial and continuing and has the authority to
  independently control the day to day business decisions  of  the  entity
  for at least one year.
    The provisions of this subdivision shall not be construed to limit the
  ability of any minority business enterprise to bid on any contract.
    4.  In  order  to  implement  the  requirements and objectives of this
  section, the authority shall establish procedures to monitor contractors
  compliance with  provisions  hereof,  provide  assistance  in  obtaining
  competing  qualified  minority  and  women-owned business enterprises to
  perform contracts proposed to be awarded, impose  contractual  sanctions
  for  non-compliance,  and take other appropriate measures to improve the
  access  of  minority  and  women-owned  business  enterprises  to  these
  contracts.
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