01Use job-related criteria
Define essential duties and evaluate qualifications, experience, license status, training, availability, conduct, performance, and other lawful factors that actually relate to the position rather than stereotypes or assumptions.
02Prohibit unlawful discrimination
Employment decisions should not be made because of race, color, religion, sex—including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or transgender status—national origin, age where protected, disability, genetic information, or another status protected by applicable law.
03Provide an accommodation process
Applicants and employees may request a reasonable accommodation for an application, interview, training, essential job duty, or other covered employment process. Each request should be reviewed through the applicable interactive process and legal standards.
04Apply standards across employment
Recruiting, application access, testing, hiring, training, job assignments, schedules, pay, benefits, promotion, discipline, references, and separation should use consistent, lawful, job-related criteria.
05Protect good-faith reporting
Retaliation should not occur because a person in good faith requests an accommodation, raises a discrimination concern, participates in a covered process, or opposes conduct believed to be unlawful.
06Review concerns responsibly
A concern should be directed to the identified company contact or the appropriate government agency. Review should preserve relevant information, limit unnecessary disclosure, avoid predetermined conclusions, and communicate the next step.