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Equal Employment at FDA

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity (EEO) and promoting workforce diversity to maintain a strong, effective, high performing public service organization.  The FDA strongly supports and vigorously enforces all applicable Federal EEO laws, regulations, Executive Orders, and management directives to ensure that all our highly talented employees are afforded an equal opportunity for success in the workplace and every protection under the law and to safeguard the integrity of our mission here at the FDA.

Resources For You

Please find below, a link to the Department of Health and Human Services (“Department” or “HHS”) EEO Policy Statement, signed by Secretary Becerra, which is currently posted on the HHS internet and intranet sites, and has been disseminated department-wide. This EEO Policy Statement is an annual reminder that all HHS and Operating/Staff Division employees and applicants for employment are protected from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation under the laws enforced by the federal anti-discrimination statutes. Annually, a recommitment to this policy, and the ideals within, is communicated internally and publicly, to promote equity, fairness, dignity and respect, and ensure that the business of the Department is conducted free of discriminatory, retaliatory, and harassing behavior.
 
https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/asa/eeo/policy/index.html.

Notice of Rights – Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. §§ 4151-57)

Architectural Barriers Act of 1968

The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (ABA) is codified in 42 U.S. Code § 4151 through 4157 and defines how the Administrator of General Services is responsible for prescribing standards for the design, construction, and alteration of buildings that ensure individuals with physical disabilities have ready access and use of those buildings and facilities whenever possible. The ABA applies to facilities designed, built, altered, or leased with certain federal funds, and non-federal facilities which were built or altered with federal grants or loans. The ABA requirements also have defined exceptions and limitations.

The complete guidelines can be downloaded from the Government Printing Office’s page on 36 C.F.R. § 1191 – American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities; Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) Accessibility Guidelines. 

The United States Access Board accepts complaints that buildings covered by the ABA do not meet these standards. 

If you know of a covered building that does not meet the guidelines, you can file a complaint on the Access Board’s Complaints Page. 

Complaints may be filed anonymously.

Commissioner's Policy Statements



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