Article 3.5. Employment Procedures of California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.5.
The employment procedures of the department and of each
state agency shall conform to the federal and state laws governing
employment practices, including the use of employment forms. The
department and the Department of Fair Employment and Housing shall
work cooperatively to develop uniform employment forms where possible
pursuant to the provisions of this article and shall coordinate
their enforcement of this article.
The department shall be responsible for the collection and
review of all employment forms used by state agencies for civil
service employment and for the development of standard employment
forms for general use by all state agencies. The department may
designate an appointing power to review employment forms in
accordance with Section 18654 and board rules. Each state agency
shall use the standard forms. However, the department, or an
appointing power designated by the department, may approve the use of
a nonstandard form by a state agency if the information requested on
the form is job-related and the forms and procedures to be used
conform with federal and state law governing employment practices.
Copies of nonstandard forms approved by a designated appointing power
shall be transmitted to the department. Nonstandard forms proposed
by a state agency shall be accompanied by a petition submitted by the
agency which specifies the reasons why a nonstandard form is
necessary to meet the agency's needs.
The Department of Fair Employment and Housing shall
collect and review all other forms used by state agencies for
employment, and occupational licensing and registration, to ensure
conformance to law and to develop standard forms for general use by
all state agencies. Each state agency shall use the standard forms.
The department, however, may approve the use of a nonstandard form by
a state agency based on a petition submitted by the agency which
specifies the reasons why a nonstandard form is necessary to meet the
agency's needs.
Each state agency is responsible for ensuring that the
employment application forms, and occupational licensing and
registration forms, used by the agency conform to federal and state
laws governing registration and employment practices. An agency shall
not use a form which is not approved by either the department or by
the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
State agencies shall exhaust existing supplies of forms
which conform with federal and state law before using any new form
approved by the department or the Department of Fair Employment and
Housing pursuant to this article.
Employment forms used by a state agency shall require a
person applying for employment to disclose whether the person has
entered into an agreement with the state regarding any previous
employment with the state that prohibits that person from seeking or
accepting any subsequent employment with the state.
A violation of this article shall constitute an unlawful
employment practice which is subject to the enforcement provisions of
the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Chapter 7
(commencing with Section 12960) of Part 2.8 of Division 3 of Title
2), except Sections 12975 and 12976 thereof, or to enforcement
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 18670) and Article 3
(commencing with Section 18700) of this chapter and Article 2
(commencing with Section 19700) of Chapter 10.