3325 - Contracts Nondiscrimination

Non Instructional 

3325 - Contracts - Nondiscrimination 

The school system shall not enter into any contract with a person, agency, or organization if it has knowledge that such person, agency or organization discriminates either in employment practices or in the provision of benefits or services to employees on the basis of race, color, religious creed, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, intellectual disability, mental disability or physical disability, including, but not limited to, blindness, except in the case of bona fide occupational qualification or need. 

Legal References: 

Connecticut General Statutes 

4a-60 Nondiscrimination and affirmative action provisions in awarding agency, municipal public works and quasi-public agency project 

4a-60a Contracts of the state and political subdivisions, other than municipalities, to contain provisions re nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation 

46a-58 through 46a-81 re discriminatory practices 

Federal law 

Title VII, Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq 

Title IX –Equal Employment Opportunity 

Policy adopted: December 1995 

Revised: October 2019