Every year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission releases its annual report, informing the president and Congress of the state of equal-employment opportunity in the federal workforce. But critics say the annual report serves one other purpose: It magnifies what is currently wrong with the federal government’s EEO system.
The recently released 2009 report reveals a stunning lack of compliance, commitment and accountability by a number of agencies and agency leadershipespecially when compared with the best practices being employed by The Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity.
Consider this sampling of numbers from EEOC’s latest 2009 report:
