                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REQUIRED CONTRACT PROVISIONS (§ 2.2-4201)

All contracting agencies shall include in every government contract of over
$10,000 the following provisions:
		During the performance of this contract, the contractor agrees as follows:

1. The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for
employment because of race, religion, color, sex, or national origin, except
where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational
qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the contractor.
The contractor agrees to post in conspicuous places, available to employees and
applicants for employment, notices setting forth the provisions of this
nondiscrimination clause, including the names of all contracting agencies with
which the contractor has contracts of over $10,000.

2. The contractor will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees
placed by or on behalf of the contractor, state that such contractor is an equal
opportunity employer. However, notices, advertisements and solicitations placed
in accordance with federal law, rule or regulation shall be deemed sufficient
for the purpose of meeting the requirements of this chapter.

3. If the contractor employs more than five employees, the contractor shall (i)
provide annual training on the contractor&#8217;s sexual harassment policy to
all supervisors and employees providing services in the Commonwealth, except
such supervisors or employees that are required to complete sexual harassment
training provided by the Department of Human Resource Management, and (ii) post
the contractor&#8217;s sexual harassment policy in (a) a conspicuous public
place in each building located in the Commonwealth that the contractor owns or
leases for business purposes and (b) the contractor&#8217;s employee handbook.
			The contractor shall include the provisions of subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 in
every subcontract or purchase order of over $10,000, so that such provisions
shall be binding upon each subcontractor or vendor.
			Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to empower any agency to
require any contractor to grant preferential treatment to, or discriminate
against, any individual or any group because of race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin on account of an imbalance that may exist with respect to the
total number or percentage of persons of any race, color, religion, sex, or
national origin employed by such contractor in comparison with the total number
or percentage of persons of such race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
in any community or in the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 1975, c. 626, § 2.1-376; 2001, c. 844; 2020, c. 859.