Seventh-day Adventist conferences are religiously qualified Equal Opportunity Employers, with the right to prefer Seventh-day Adventists in hiring. It is the policy of Seventh-day Adventist conferences to recruit and promote for job classifications on various factors including qualification, competence, attitude and spiritual commitment. Seventh-day Adventist conferences do not discriminate against qualified applicants on account of race, color, sex, age, national origin, or mental or physical handicap/disability, ancestry, marital status, or arrest or court records. Seventh-day Adventist conferences reasonably accommodate the known disabilities/handicaps of qualified applicants, unless to do so would be an unreasonable hardship.