United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-09-28 monographic deposited born digital 28 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-95-177 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177 P0b002ee180393ea0 f:he95177 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177 HEHS-95-177 Employment discrimination Fair employment programs Statistical methods Contractor personnel Contract monitoring Minorities Compliance Law enforcement Reductions in force Budget cuts Letter Report HEHS

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' (OFCCP) oversight of federal contractors' equal employment opportunity (EEO) practices, focusing on: (1) OFCCP fulfillment of its mission and responsibilities; (2) changes in OFCCP resources in recent years; and (3) whether the OFCCP selection procedure for contractor reviews could mask discrimination against specific minority groups.<p/>GAO found that: (1) OFCCP uses compliance reviews which compare the racial and gender composition of the contractor's workforce with those of similar federal contractors to ensure that federal contractors use nondiscriminatory employment practices; (2) when OFCCP identifies EEO violations during its compliance reviews, it resolves the violations by working with the contractors rather than imposing sanctions on the contractors; (3) OFCCP recommends enforcement proceedings only if the contractor does not correct its EEO violation; (4) OFCCP uses 11 percent and 10 percent, respectively, of its enforcement resources for complaint investigations and compliance support; (5) from 1989 to 1994, OFCCP financial and staff resources decreased 9 percent and 15 percent, respectively, and the number of compliance reviews completed decreased by 33 percent; (6) although OFCCP aggregates data on all minority employees in a given contractor's workforce during the initial selection stage of compliance reviews, it may overlook a contractor's discriminatory practices against one or more particular minority groups; and (7) OFCCP uses aggregate data to identify contractors for compliance reviews because the data produces a large enough number of observations for a statistically valid analysis. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177.pdf GAO/HEHS-95-177 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-95-177 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-95-177; Equal Employment Opportunity: DOL Contract Compliance Reviews Could Better Target Federal Contractors; Employment discrimination Fair employment programs Statistical methods Contractor personnel Contract monitoring Minorities Compliance Law enforcement Reductions in force Budget cuts Title 38 Section 4212 38 U.S.C. 4212