Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from engaging in employment discrimination against a protected class. To that end, the Federal Government has created the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (and, by extension, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission) to investigate complaints made by employees in which said employee’s civil rights were violated. All public institutions, by default, are equal-opportunity employers and the District provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

TITLE IX was passed to extend protections enshrined in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to education-related settings. As such, Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding such as public schools. The law now covers matters not only related to athletic and extracurricular activities but also sexual harassment, sexual violence, and gender discrimination. Please note that, per District Policy 103, the Director of Human Resources is the District’s Title IX Coordinator, but all Title IX complaints will be jointly reviewed with the Assistant Superintendent of Schools. Both individuals can be contacted via the District's Title IX compliance email address: TitleIX@slsd.org. 

Under law, Title IX requires employers to publish grievance procedures related to Title IX-related complaints. As such, the District’s Title IX training manual, which outlines these policies and processes, can be found by clicking HERE.

COBRA requires employers, public and private (size depending), to offer continuing healthcare coverage to (formerly) covered employees, their spouses, former spouses, and dependent children when group health coverage would otherwise be lost due to certain specific events (e.g., termination of employment). The District honors this requirement by offering former employees the opportunity to buy coverage at full price (without the employer subsidy) on any healthcare insurance plan(s) otherwise available in said employee’s classification group. 

The ADA law requires all public and private employers to provide reasonable accommodations for employees with a legally recognized/ applicable condition. The District attempts to accommodate reasonable accommodations that, by law, do not impose an undue hardship on the employer. Employees who are interested in pursuing ADA accommodation(s) must complete the District’s ADA Request Form which can be found in the District HR Forms subsection of the Current Employees tab on the left-hand side.

Since many public and private employers offer healthcare as part of their employee benefits packages, HIPAA ensures employees have certain privacy protections concerning their medical conditions and healthcare benefits usage. By law, employers must keep two (2) distinct employee files – one for medical-related matters (Protected Health Information) and the other for employee employment and performance-related matters – so that information contained in the former does not influence employment-related decisions. While the Office makes both files available for inspection by the employee, school administrators (other than Office of Human Resources personnel) can only access the non-medical files.  

The ACA requires all employers, public and private (size depending), to provide health insurance coverage to all non-contractor employees (i.e., W2 employees) who work at least 30 hours per week (or a cumulative total of at least 130 hours per month). Moreover, the law requires all employers to provide a data resource known as Transparency in Coverage for public inspection. You can download the Machine Readable Files (MRFs) using the following links:

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Pennsylvania 

Highmark Blue Shield of Pennsylvania