Non-Discrimination Policy
Anti-Discrimination
The Township of Ferguson is committed to an environment where those who live, work, and visit the Township are treated with respect and dignity.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Everyone has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment and retaliation for reporting such. Therefore, the Township of Ferguson expects that all relationships among employees will be business-like and free of explicit bias, prejudice, and harassment.
Ferguson Township is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any person in recruitment, examination, appointment, training, promotion, retention, discipline or any other aspect of personnel administration because of religious opinions or affiliations, race, national origin, age, sex, or disability will not discriminate against applicants for employment or employees on the basis of race, religion, age, gender, non-work related handicap, color, or national origin. Ferguson Township does not discriminate against any employee on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy or childbirth related medical conditions.
Ferguson Township is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons and to prohibiting discrimination because of race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion, marital status, disability, military status, or any other protected status and/or conditions specified in federal or Pennsylvania civil rights laws. In the event of a conflict between this policy and any such laws, the laws shall control.
Job applicants and employees who believe or suspect they have been denied an equal opportunity relative to their employment, or who perceive another employee has been so denied, or who believe that they or another employee have been subjected to retaliation for having raised such a concern, are encouraged to promptly bring their belief or suspicion to the attention of their immediate supervisor or a member of the Human Resources Department by calling (814) 238-4651, via the Human Resources Office Contact Form, or mail to 3147 Research Drive, State College, PA 16801.
The Township’s Human Resources representative will investigate and report all findings and recommendations to the Board of Supervisors. In the event that a member of the Human Resources Department is involved in the substance of the complaint, the Board of Supervisors will appoint an independent investigator to conduct the investigation of the complaint.
View the Township's Non-Discrimination Policy.
For Residents: Regional Human Relations Commission
Municipalities in the Centre Region and in Centre County have established anti-discrimination ordinances with Human Relations Commissions designed to help protect people within their jurisdictions from the negative direct and secondary effects of discriminatory practices.
Citizens may submit a complaint, following the procedure outlined in the below-linked ordinance, within one hundred eighty (180) days of the alleged act of discrimination. Individuals needing special accommodation because of their disabilities should notify the Township Manager's office or the Human Relations Commission to obtain assistance with any proceeding.
An Ordinance of the Township of Ferguson to Ensure Anti-Discrimination
An Ordinance of the Township of Ferguson to Establish the Regional Human Relations Commission
Alternatively, residents and employees may file any such complaints with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
Nepotism Policy
No person will be hired or transferred with the result that he or she will supervise, work with or under the direct supervisions of his or her spouse, parent, parent-in-law, stepson, stepdaughter, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, first cousin, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, or grandchildren.