In Part 1 of the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, you completed the Separation of Employment and Noncompete Policies about the process and procedures for employees' separation from the company and a description of the instances where employees would be subject to noncompete agreements.

In Part 2 of the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, you completed the Recruitment Policy, where you proposed rules and procedures for the recruitment of employees and so forth.

In Part 3 of the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, your team will be working on the policies regarding affirmative action, racial and religious discrimination, and religious accommodations. You are in the process of creating an Affirmative Action Plan and Religious Accommodation and Racial and Religious Discrimination Policy for your employees.

Your Affirmative Action Plan and Religious Accommodation and Racial and Religious Discrimination Policy must include the following:

• A description of how your business plans to reach out to underrepresented groups
• A description of how your business plans on recruiting groups that it has not attempted to recruit in the past
• A description of mentoring, management training, and developing traditionally excluded groups
• Plans of your business to recruit underrepresented groups to work for your business
• A description of training and the training frequency that you will provide to staff on racial discrimination
• Rules prohibiting discrimination based on race or color
• A description of training and the training frequency that your company will provide to staff on religious discrimination
• Training provided to staff regarding affirmative action
• A description of workplace policies and practices related to diversity
• Inappropriate or exclusionary workplace behaviors toward each other and disciplinary procedure for behavior involving racial discrimination
• Placement goals involving diversity and inclusion
• Holidays or activities encouraging diversity and inclusion
• Philanthropy goals and contractor diversity goals
• Religious accommodation policy discussing undue hardship
• Procedure for supervisors responding to employee requests for religious accommodation
• Procedure for employees requesting religious accommodation
• Guidelines for accommodation of religious holidays
• Employee reasonable accommodation policy and procedure

Deliverable Requirements

Your Affirmative Action Plan and Religious Accommodation and Racial and Religious Discrimination Policy must be at least 5 pages in length. Be sure to cite sources using APA properly; include references and in-text citations. The title and reference pages do not count as part of the 5 pages.