KLB Construction, Inc. and their affiliated companies are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal opportunity and nondiscrimination to applicants and employees without regard to race or ethnicity, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age, religion, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability or whether a disabled or Vietnam era veteran. The company is equally committed to take affirmative action to increase the number of Asians, Black, Hispanics, Native Americans, women, and persons between the ages of 40 and 70, persons of disability and disabled and Vietnam era veterans in positions where it is determined they are underutilized. The company will make every effort to eliminate barriers to equal employment opportunity encountered by these protected group members and improve employment opportunities available to underutilized groups. The following are specific goals within the policy:

A. The company will recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications solely upon their qualifications and ability or potential ability to do the job, and shall consider race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability or whether a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era only when such is a bona fide occupational qualification.

B. All other personnel actions such as compensation, benefits, layoffs, return from layoffs, terminations, college-sponsored training, education, tuition assistance, social and recreational programs will be administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, physical or sensory disability, sexual preference or whether a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era.

C. Numerical goals will be set in areas where protected classes are determined to be underutilized. The company will make every good faith effort to meet these goals within the timetables set for them.

D. The company’s EEO Officer or collectively with the management staff of the company has the overall responsibility for assuring that the Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Policy is administered effectively. It is incumbent upon each officer of the company and its management staff to make a good faith effort in the execution of this policy.

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Kelly Lynn Bosa, Pres.        Roni Grady, EEO Offic.