Equal Employment Opportunity (Eeo) Policy And Program Administration Form Sample Page 49
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54VA MEDICAL CENTER
POLICY MEMORANDUM 00-309
BRONX, NEW YORK 10468
July 24, 2003
EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
______________________________________________________________________________
1. PURPOSE:
To establish this Medical Center’s policy on providing assistance to
employees to enable them to address and overcome personal problems that can adversely affect
their job performance.
2. POLICY:
A. It is the policy of this Medical Center to assist employees to be fully productive on
the job. To this end, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) has been established to
provide free, confidential short term counseling to identify and overcome such problems as
alcohol and drug abuse, work and family pressures, legal and financial problems, job stress,
and other concerns that can adversely affect an employee’s performance, reliability, and
personal health.
B. This Agency recognizes alcoholism and drug abuse as treatable health problems and
is not concerned with employees’ use of alcohol except as it may affect their job performance
or the efficiency of the service. However, this agency does not condone employee drug
activity, within or outside the Medical Center, that is contrary to law. This Medical Center
recognizes that there can be a relationship between alcoholism, drug abuse, and other
illnesses properly treated by mental health professionals and deficiencies in employee job
performance and conduct. It is to the mutual benefit of the Medical Center and its employees
that assistance be available to employees in locating professional help in order to correct
problems of this type.
C. No employee will have job security or promotion opportunities jeopardized by a
request for counseling or referral assistance.
D. The Medical Center guarantees the confidentiality of all records established in
connection with Employee Assistance Program.
3. DEFINITIONS:
A. Alcoholism. A chronic disease or behavior characterized by repeated excessive
drinking that interferes with the individual's health, interpersonal relations, economic
functioning, or standing in the community. Alcoholism may take several years to reach the
chronic phase and, if untreated, may be fatal. For the purpose of this policy, alcoholism is
defined as a health problem in which the employee's job performance and/or conduct are
impaired as a direct consequence of the abusive use of alcohol.
B. Alcoholic. An individual who has the illness of alcoholism. The person's drinking is
out of control and is self-destructive in many different ways. The term "recovering alcoholic"
describes the person who has undergone rehabilitation and whose disease has been arrested
through abstinence.
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