---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 38.36"
title: "29"
number: "38.36"
heading: "Recipients' obligations to publish equal opportunity notice."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/38.36"
---

# §38.36. Recipients' obligations to publish equal opportunity notice.

- (a) At a minimum, the Equal Opportunity Notice required by §§ [38.34](/cfr/29/38.34.md) and [38.35](/cfr/29/38.35.md) must be:
  - (1) Posted prominently, in reasonable numbers and places, in available and conspicuous physical locations and on the recipient's Web site pages;
  - (2) Disseminated in internal memoranda and other written or electronic communications with staff;
  - (3) Included in employee and participant handbooks or manuals regardless of form, including electronic and paper form if both are available; and
  - (4) Provided to each participant and employee; the notice must be made part of each employee's and participant's file. It must be a part of both paper and electronic files, if both are maintained.
- (b) The notice must be provided in appropriate formats to registrants, applicants, eligible applicants/registrants, applicants for employment and employees and participants with visual impairments. Where notice has been given in an alternate format to registrants, applicants, eligible applicants/registrants, participants, applicants for employment and employees with a visual impairment, a record that such notice has been given must be made a part of the employee's or participant's file.
- (c) The notice must be provided to participants in appropriate languages other than English as required in [§ 38.9](/cfr/29/38.9.md).
- (d) The notice required by §§ [38.34](/cfr/29/38.34.md) and [38.35](/cfr/29/38.35.md) must be initially published and provided within 90 days of January 3, 2017, or of the date this part first applies to the recipient, whichever comes later.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq. ; 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq. ; 29 U.S.C. 794; 42 U.S.C. 6101 et seq. ; and 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 87211, Dec. 2, 2016, unless otherwise noted.