PCDC is committed to a policy, which prohibits discrimination based on the protected classes listed below, under federal, state and local laws and regulations:

 

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (Title VII), prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. The Americans with Disability Act of 1990, as amended (ADA), prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of disability. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended (ADEA) prohibits employment discrimination based on age for those over 40 years old. All three statutes prohibit retaliation for complaining about such discrimination. Under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act of 1955, P.L. 7 44, No. 222, as amended (PHRA) June 25, 1997 by Act 34 OF 1997, 43 P.S. § 951-963 Pennsylvania prohibits discrimination within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the basis of race, color sex, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age ( 40 or older), disability (including the use of a support animal) or relationship to an individual with a disability, possession of a G.E. D. certificate instead of a high school diploma and retaliation for having complained of such discrimination. The City of Philadelphia by ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of any of the above mentioned in Title VII and includes sexual orientation.