Issue: Discrimination

Date: 09/22/95

Top Echelon Network does not discriminate
Every service Top Echelon Network offers is provided without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, disability, or age. Top Echelon Network complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII, the Civil Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and other federal, state, and local prohibitions against discrimination. Any action not following the above mentioned discrimination laws is considered "discriminatory.

Top Echelon Network requires recruiters to not discriminate
Top Echelon Network advises all of its customers and recipients of any of its services that recruiters as well as their client companies are obligated to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII, the Civil Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and other federal, state, and local prohibitions against discrimination.

Persons using information distributed by Top Echelon Network agree
Top Echelon Network is not the originator of any candidate or job order information. All information put into the Top Echelon Network system is the sole property and sole responsibility of the persons supplying the information to Top Echelon Network. The Network simply distributes the information with which it is supplied. Due to the large volume Top Echelon Network receives, Top Echelon Network is unable to verify if the information being distributed is either factual or non-discriminatory in nature. All persons (recruiters, counselors, researchers, client companies, etc.) using any information collected and distributed by Top Echelon Network agree to use the information in a manner which does not violate any employment discrimination laws.

Due to the large volume of information passing through the system, Top Echelon Network provides its customers the ability to "screen in" and "screen out" candidates and job orders which are not applicable to their hiring needs. Recruiters using the Top Echelon Network system understand that the parameters used in any computerized screening capabilities offered by Top Echelon Network are completely controlled by them (and not Top Echelon Network), and they are solely responsible to not use these screening capabilities to discriminate.

If any Top Echelon Network Affiliate provide information to Top Echelon Network which contains discriminatory content, which uses any information collected and distributed by Top Echelon Network in a discriminatory manner, or which uses any Top Echelon Network computerized screening capabilities in a nature which violates any employment discrimination laws, the persons providing such information, using such information, or using such capabilities agree that they are solely responsible for their actions. Any such customer shall indemnify and hold Top Echelon Network harmless from all fees, costs, claims, expenses, and liabilities incurred by Top Echelon Network as a result of the customer’s failure to comply with any such applicable laws or regulations.