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STATE OF OHIO EEO COMPOSITION WORKFORCE AUTHORITY
EEOC GUIDELINES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EEO COMPOSITION WORKFORCE
STATE DESCRIPTION OF JOB CATEGORIES IN STATE GOVERNMENT
DESCRIPTION OF THE EEO-1 REPORT AND AUTHORITY
DESCRIPTION OF THE EEO-4 REPORT AND AUTHORITY

STATE OF OHIO EEO COMPOSITION WORKFORCE AUTHORITY

The General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled on the basis of court decisions, that the Commission has the authority to require the racial and ethnic identification of employees, regardless of any possible conflicting state or local laws.

The concept of race as used by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission does not denote clear-cut scientific definitions of anthropological origins. For the purposes of this report, an employee may be included in the group to which he or she appears to belong, identifies with, or is regarded in the community as belonging. However, no person may be counted in more than one race/ethnic category.

The information contained in the EEO workforce mirrors the entire agency by race, sex, position classification and EEO classification. The workforce report is listed below: Officials and Administrators , Professionals, Paraprofessional, Technicians, Protective Service Workers, Administrative Support (including Clerical and Sales), Skilled Craft Workers and Service-Maintenance.

EEOC GUIDELINES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EEO COMPOSITION WORKFORCE REPORT

The Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Equal Opportunity Division's (DAS/EOD) EEO Workforce Composition reports are issued to state of Ohio agencies on a quarterly basis and consist of the respective agency’s workforce. Employees are catagorized by federal EEO categories/classification and further by race, sex and the eight EEO categories. These categories are classified as outlined by the federal EEOC guidelines and include:

Officials and Administrators
Professionals
Paraprofessional
Technicians
Protective Service Workers
Administrative Support (including Clerical and Sales)
Skilled Craft Workers
Service-Maintenance

Each agency classification has been assigned to one of the above-mentioned categories. This report also details all of the classifications that have not been assigned to appropriate job categories identified as “unknown” or “not classified.” Since all agency classifications should be assigned to one of the above categories, please review the “unknown” or “not classified” columns in the classification section of the report to update information. The EEO Workforce Composition reports' accuracy is the responsibility of each state agency.

STATE DESCRIPTION OF JOB CATEGORIES IN STATE GOVERMENT

All state of Ohio employees are categorized by one of the following job categories for the purpose of identification in the EEO Workforce, EEO-1 or the EEO-4 report. Officials and Administrators; Professionals, Technicians, Protective Service Workers, Paraprofessionals, Administrative Support (including Clerical and Sales), Skilled Craft Workers and Service-Maintenance.

Officials and Administrators: Occupations in which employees set broad policies, exercise overall responsibility for execution of these policies, or direct individual departments or special phases of the agency’s operations, or provide specialized consultation on a regional, district or area basis. Includes: department heads, bureau chiefs, division chiefs, directors, deputy directors, controllers, wardens superintendents, sheriffs, police and fire chiefs and inspectors, examiners (bank, hearing, motor vehicle, warehouse), inspectors (construction, building, safety, rent-and-housing, fire, ABC Board, license, diary, livestock, transportation), assessors, tax appraisers and investigators, coroners, farm managers, and kindred workers.

Professionals: Occupations, which require specialized and theoretical knowledge, which is usually acquired through college training or through work experience and other training which provides comparable knowledge. Includes: personnel and labor relations workers, social workers, doctors, psychologists, registered nurses, economists, dieticians, lawyers, systems analysts, accountants, engineers, employment and vocational rehabilitation counselors, teachers or instructors, police and fire captains and lieutenants, librarians, management analysts, airplane pilots and navigators, surveyors and mapping scientists, and kindred workers.

Technicians: Occupations, which require a combination of basic scientific or technical knowledge and manual skill, which can be obtained through specialized post-secondary school education or through equivalent on-the-job training. Includes: computer programmers, drafters, survey and mapping technicians, licensed practical nurses, photographers, radio operators, technical illustrators, highway technicians, technicians (medical, dental, electronic, physical sciences), police and fire sergeants, inspectors (production or processing inspectors, testers and weighers), and kindred workers.

Protective Service Workers: Occupations in which workers are entrusted with public safety, security and protection from destructive forces. Includes: police patrol officers, fire fighters, guards, deputy sheriffs, bailiffs, correctional officers, detectives, marshals, harbor patrol officers, game and fish wardens, park rangers (except maintenance), and kindred workers.

Paraprofessionals: Occupations in which workers perform some of the duties of a professional or technician in a supportive role, which usually require less formal training and/or experience normally required for professional or technical status. Such positions may fall within an identified pattern of staff development and promotion under a “New Careers” concept. Included: research assistants, medical aids, child support workers, policy auxiliary, welfare service aids, recreation assistants’, homemakers aides, home health aides, library assistants and clerks, ambulance drivers and attendants, and kindred workers.

Administrative Support (including Clerical and Sales): Occupations in which workers are responsible for internal and external communications, recording and retrieval of data and/or information and other paperwork required in an office. Includes: bookkeepers, messengers, clerk-typists, stenographers, court transcribers, hearing reporters, statistical clerks, dispatchers, license distributors, payroll clerks, office machine and computer operators, telephone operators, legal assistants, sales workers, cashiers, toll collectors, and kindred workers.

Skilled Craft Workers: Occupations in which workers perform jobs which require special manual skill and a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved in the work which is acquired through on-the-job training and experience or through apprenticeship or other formal training programs. Includes: mechanics and repairers, electricians, heavy equipment operators, stationary engineers, skilled machining occupations, carpenters, compositors and typesetters, power plant operators, water and sewage treatment plant operators, and kindred workers.

Service-Maintenance: Occupations in which workers perform duties which result in or contribute to the comfort, convenience, hygiene or safety of the general public or which contribute to the upkeep and care of buildings, facilities or grounds of public property. Workers in this group may operate machinery. Includes: chauffeurs, laundry and dry cleaning operatives, truck drivers, bus drivers, garage laborers, custodial employees, gardeners and ground keepers, refuse collectors, construction laborers, park rangers (maintenance), farm workers (except managers), craft apprentices/trainees/helpers, and kindred workers.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EEO-1 REPORT AND REPORTING AUTHORITY

The Employer Information EEO-1 survey is conducted annually under the authority of Public Law 88-352, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. All employers with 15 or more employees are covered by Public Law 88-352 and are required to keep employment records as specified by Commission regulations. Based on the number of employees and federal contract activities, certain large employers are required to file an EEO-1 report on an annual basis.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EEO-4 REPORT AND REPORTING AUTHORITY

Under Public Law 88-352, Title Vll of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, all state and local governments that have 15 or more employees are required to keep records and to make any such reports to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as are specified in the regulations of the Commission. Every political jurisdiction with 15 or more employees must make and keep records and statistics which would be necessary for the completion of the EEO-4 Report.

The EEO-4 Report includes information about race and sex data, occupational employment data identified by EEOC category, annual salary. This report provides a comparison of full time employees based on EEO job categories, classifications, racial and gender profiles. Submission of the EEO-4 report is required every two years and presents state agency hiring practices.