Prohibiting Discrimination in Employment, Providing for the Creation of the South Bend Fair Employment Practice Commission

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SECTION 4. Discrimination in Employment Practices Prohibited It shall be unlawful for employers, employees, labor organizations, employment agencies or others subject to this ordinance to: (a) Discriminate against any person with regard to hire, discharge, tenure, up grading terms, conditions or privileges of employment or membership in any labor organization solely on the grounds of race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry. (b) Publish or cause to be published any information, notice or adver- tisement relating to employment or membership which contains any speci- fications or limitations as to race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry. (c) Require of any applicant as a condition of employment or membership any information concerning his race, religious creed, color, national origin or ancestry. (d) Aid, abet, encourage or incite the commission of any discrimination prohibited by this ordinance. (e) To discriminate against any person because he opposed any practice prohibited by this ordinance or because he made a charge, testified or assisted in any manner in any investigation, proceeding or hearing as provided herein. SECTION 5. Discrimination in Employment Practices Prohibited in Cit The City of South Bend shall prohibit all the discriminatory practices set forth in Section 4 in all its departments, divisions, boards and commissions; or the commission of said discriminatory practice by any city officials, their agents or employees acting for or on behalf of said city. The City of South Bend and all of its contracting agencies and department! shall include in all public works contracts hereafter negotiated a pro- vision obligating the public works contractor not to commit any of the discriminatory practices set forth in Section 4 and shall require such contractor to include a similar provision in all sub - contracts. This provision shall apply to all public works contracts and said sub- contracts carried on by said city or on property under its ownership or control. SECTION 6. Authorized Exemptions Exempt from the requirements of this law shall be: (a) Any employer of less than twelve people; nor shall members of the immediate family of an employer be included -in determining the number of employees. (b) Any bona fide religious organization whose membership or service is limited to persons of a single religious faith. (c) Any private organization having a purely social or fraternal purpose (d) Any type of employment where religious creed, national origin or ancestry would be considered an essential qualification of employment.