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PLACED ON THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE ON 10/19/92. " PLACED ON SECOND READING ON ~1/2/92. bRDINANCE NO. 89-92 BY: Boscia Gallagher, George, Gibbons, Roth, Seelie AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE enacting new Section 111.10 of the Administrative code of the Codified ordinances of the City of Lake- wood to adopt fair employment practices based on the MacBride princi- ples and to enable the city to be in compliance with The Fair Em- ployment Practice in Northern Ireland, applicable to all contracts for goods and services let by the city of Lakewood. WHEREAS, the city of Lakewood supports human rights and the rights of all people to equal employment opportunities, and WHEREAS, the Catholic minority population in the Counties Fermanagh, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Derry, and Antrim of' Northern Ire- land suffer unemployment rates two and one half times that of the Protestant majority population, and WHEREAS, employment discrimination in Northern Ireland has been cited by the International Commission Jurists as being among the major causes of conflict in that area, and WHEREAS, Dr. Scan MacBride, founder of Amnesty Internation- al and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureat, has prepared several equal oppor- tunity employment principles to serve as guidelines for those con- ducting business in Northern Ireland known as The MacBride Princi- ples. These principles include: 1. Increasing the representation of individuals from under-represented religious groups in the work force, including managerial, supervisory, administrative, clerical and technical jobs. (A work force that is severely unbalanced may indi- cate prima facie that full equality of opportunity is not being afforded all segments of the communi- ty in Northern Ireland. Each signatory to the MacBride Principles must make every reasonable lawful effort to increase the representation of under-represented religious'groups at all levels of its operations in Northern Ireland.) 2. Adequate security for the protection of minor- ity employees both at the work place and while traveling to and from work. (While total security can be guaranteed nowhere today in Northern Ire- land, each signatory to the MacBride Principles must make reasonable~g°°d faith efforts to protect workers against intimidation and physical abuse at the work place, signatories must also make rea- sonable good faith efforts to ensure that appli- cants are not deterred from seeking employment because of fear for their personal safety at the work place or while traveling to and from work.) 3. The banning provocative religious or political emblems from the work place. (Each signatory to the MacBride Principles must make reasonable good faith efforts to prevent the display of provoca- tive sectarian emblems at their plants in Northern Ireland.) 4. All job openings should be publicly advertised and special recruitment efforts should be made to attract applicants from under-represented reli- gious groups. (Signatories to the MacBride Prin- ciples must exert special efforts to attract employment applications from the sectarian commu- nity that is substantially under-represented in the work force. This should not be construed to