§ 2799-gggg. Equal employment opportunities. 1. The corporation shall
not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment because
of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age,
disability or marital status, and will undertake or continue programs of
affirmative action to ensure that minority group persons and women are
afforded equal employment opportunity without discrimination. Such
action shall be taken with reference, but not be limited, to
recruitment, employment, job assignment, promotion, upgrading, demotion,
transfer, layoff, termination, rate of pay or other forms of
compensation, and selections for training or retraining, including
apprenticeship and on-the-job training.

2. The corporation shall request each employment agency, labor union,
or authorized representative of workers with which it has a collective
bargaining or other agreement or understanding, to furnish a written
statement that such employment agency, labor union or representative
shall not discriminate because of race, creed, color, national origin,
sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or marital status and that such
union or representative will cooperate in the implementation of the
corporation's obligations hereunder.

3. The corporation shall state, in all solicitations or advertisements
for employees placed by or on behalf of the corporation, that all
qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunity
without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin,
sex, sexual orientation, age, disability or marital status.

4. The corporation shall seek meaningful participation by minority
business enterprises in the programs of the corporation and shall
actively and affirmatively promote and assist their participation in the
corporation's programs, so as to facilitate the award of a fair share of
contracts to such enterprises. For purposes hereof, "minority business
enterprise" shall mean any business enterprise which is at least
fifty-one per centum owned by, or in the case of publicly owned
business, at least fifty-one per centum of the stock of which is owned
by, citizens or permanent resident noncitizens who are Black, Hispanic,
Asian, American Indian or women, and such ownership interest is real,
substantial and continuing.