The legal authority for the administration of the City's Nondiscrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Program (AAP) Affirmative action requires you to take positive steps to identify discrimination based on protected class status and to improve work opportunities.This Directive provides policy guidance and standards for establishing and maintaining effective affirmative programs of equal employment opportunity. Title VII prohibits not only overt discrimination, but also practices that are fair in form but discriminatory in operation. Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Los Angeles Administrative Code (LAAC), Division 10, Chapter 1, Article 1, Section 10.8 requires entities doing business with the City to. Riverside County, CA; and. As part of its efforts to ensure equal employment opportunity to all individuals, CALIFORNIA. Affirmative action obligations for federal contractors are significantly different from those at issue in the SFFA cases. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the program as within the scope of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.