Equal Employment Opportunity: Immigration and Naturalization Service's
Equal Employment Opportunity Program (Testimony, 11/17/94,
GAO/T-GGD-95-41).

As of August 1994, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had
eliminated its equal employment opportunity (EEO) complaint backlog of
cases filed before fiscal year 1993. Although 141 of these complaints
remained in the inventory, all of these complaints were either awaiting
a hearing before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or were
awaiting a final agency decision at the Justice Department. INS
consistently reduced the average number of calendar days for processing
EEO discrimination complaints during fiscal years 1989 to 1993. INS more
than tripled EEO program resources during fiscal years 1993 and 1995.
The INS EEO Task Force made 36 recommendations for improving the
representation of African-Americans and other minorities. According to
the EEO Director, 34 of these recommendations are being implemented.
Between September 1992 and September 1994, INS promoted about 1,000
employees to supervisory and managerial jobs. Minority employees
accounted for about 40 percent of the promotions, while women accounted
for about 32 percent. African-American men and women accounted for about
11 percent of the promotions.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-GGD-95-41
     TITLE:  Equal Employment Opportunity: Immigration and 
             Naturalization Service's Equal Employment Opportunity 
             Program
      DATE:  11/17/94
   SUBJECT:  Employment of minorities
             Fair employment programs
             Human resources utilization
             Federal personnel law
             Personnel records
             Employment discrimination
             Employee promotions
             Merit compensation
             Personnel evaluation
             Personnel management
IDENTIFIER:  INS Equal Employment Opportunity Program
             INS Affirmative Employment Program
             INS Merit Staffing Plan II
             INS Merit Promotion and Reassignment Plan
             
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