{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-19791","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 19791","heading":"","body":"As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply:\n(a) “Equal employment opportunity” mean ensuring nondiscrimination and providing equal access to state jobs, work assignments, training, and other employment-related opportunities for all qualified job applicants and employees.\n(b) “Underutilization” means having a statistically significant, smaller percentage of persons of a group in an occupation or at a level in a state agency than would reasonably be expected by their percentage representation in the relevant labor force. An identified underutilization is not necessarily indicative of a denial of equal employment opportunity, but warrants an analysis of the cause of the underutilization.","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [8000. - 22980.]","DIVISION 5. PERSONNEL [18000. - 22980.]","PART 2. STATE CIVIL SERVICE [18500. - 19799.]","CHAPTER 12. State Civil Service Equal Employment Opportunity Program [19790. - 19799.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"0933dd4b29924ebc73fedad7f26da8e9f743733b6a5d86d975a05d6d7f54c3f2","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-19790","next":"us-ca/gov-19792"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}