03/23/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/23/2023 10:50
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released its Annual Report on the Federal Workforce for fiscal year (FY) 2020. Despite the significant progress the federal sector has made in promoting equal employment opportunity (EEO), workforce data suggested that some inequities persist.
The Annual Report on the Federal Workforce informs and advises the President and the Congress on the state of EEO throughout the federal government. The report also provides benchmarks against which individual federal agencies can gauge their performance.
EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows said, "The federal government is the nation's largest employer, with over 2 million employees, and the EEOC's Annual Report on the Federal Workforce helps measure the federal government's progress in promoting equal employment opportunity. Although only a snapshot, this data helps indicate how federal agencies can enhance their ongoing efforts to make the federal government a model employer free from unlawful discrimination."
"We continue to see slow but steady progress in the federal sector with regard to key indicators of the EEOC's mission to prevent and remedy unlawful employment discrimination and advance equal opportunity for all," said Carlton Hadden, director of the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations.
The EEOC made several major changes to the structure of the Annual Report. Previous reports from FY 2015 to FY 2019 contained data on EEO complaint processing activity, workforce statistics, and EEO commitment in a single report. For FY 2020, the EEOC split the report in two parts to make it more concise and accessible for users: one part for EEO complaint processing activity, and another for workforce statistics & EEO commitment. The EEOC also added five years of workforce data to reveal long-term trends, revised the selected grade bands by which participation rates are reported, and added information on missing data.
The first part of the FY 2020 Annual Report provides an overview of the underlying trends in federal sector complaint processing. Main findings included:
The second part provides an overview of FY 2020 federal sector trends related to workforce demographics and indicators of EEO commitment. Main findings included:
As in years past, this report only includes data from agencies that submitted and certified Federal Agency Annual Equal Employment Opportunity Program Status Reports (MD-715 reports). A complete list of agencies that failed to submit and certify FY 2020 MD-715 reports is provided with the Annual Report workforce tables found on the EEOC's Federal Sector Reports webpage at https://www.eeoc.gov/federal-sector/reports.
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