2.2-4201 - Required contract provisions.
§ 2.2-4201. Required contract provisions.
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 foremployment because of race, religion, color, sex, or national origin, exceptwhere religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupationalqualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the contractor.The contractor agrees to post in conspicuous places, available to employeesand applicants for employment, notices setting forth the provisions of thisnondiscrimination clause, including the names of all contracting agencieswith which the contractor has contracts of over $10,000.
2. The contractor will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employeesplaced by or on behalf of the contractor, state that such contractor is anequal opportunity employer. However, notices, advertisements andsolicitations placed in accordance with federal law, rule or regulation shallbe deemed sufficient for the purpose of meeting the requirements of thischapter.
The contractor shall include the provisions of the subdivisions 1 and 2 inevery subcontract or purchase order of over $10,000, so that such provisionsshall be binding upon each subcontractor or vendor.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to empower any agency torequire any contractor to grant preferential treatment to, or discriminateagainst, any individual or any group because of race, color, religion, sex ornational origin on account of an imbalance that may exist with respect to thetotal number or percentage of persons of any race, color, religion, sex ornational origin employed by such contractor in comparison with the totalnumber or percentage of persons of such race, color, religion, sex ornational origin in any community or in the Commonwealth.
(1975, c. 626, § 2.1-376; 2001, c. 844.)