MD-715 Elements | INDICATORS | ASSESSMENT | SCORE |
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Demonstrated Commitment From Agency Leadership | An EEO policy statement is issued annually by agency head. | DOL issued an EEO policy statement in FY 2006. | 100 |
Agency issued a comprehensive anti-harassment policy. | DOL issued a comprehensive anti-harassment policy. | 100 | |
Integration of EEO Into the Agency's Strategic Mission | EEO is incorporated into agency's human capital strategic plan. | EEO is incorporated in DOL's human capital strategic plan. | 100 |
EEO director reports to agency head. | DOL's EEO director reports directly to agency head. | 100 | |
EEO director has regular access to agency head. | DOL's EEO director has regular access to agency head and senior level executives. | 100 | |
Management and Program Accountability | EEO director briefs agency head and senior level officials on state of EEO. | DOL's EEO director provided state of the agency briefing to agency head and senior level officials. | 100 |
Managers and supervisors have measures in their performance plans to evaluate their efforts to ensure equal employment opportunity for all staff. | Performance plans of all managers and supervisors contain element(s) designed to evaluate the efforts made to ensure EEO within the workplace and hold managers accountable for achieving the same. | 100 | |
Reasonable accommodation procedures are posted on the agency's external website. | DOL has not posted its reasonable accommodation procedures on its external website. | 0 | |
Proactive Prevention of Unlawful Discrimination | Applicant flow data is collected to evaluate the agency's recruitment and promotion activities. | DOL submitted applicant flow data on Tables A/B 7, 9, 11, and 12. | 100 |
Agency set numerical goal for hiring people with targeted disabilities. | DOL established a numerical goal for hiring people with targeted disabilities. | 100 | |
Agency met the government high for participation rate of employees with targeted disabilities. | DOL's participation rate of employees with targeted disabilities (1.20%) was 50.63% of the federal high (2.37%). | 51 | |
Efficiency | Timeliness of EEO counselings. | DOL's rate of timely completing EEO counseling was 98.31%. | 98 |
Timeliness of EEO investigations. | DOL's rate of timely completing EEO investigations was 34.53%. | 35 | |
Timeliness of merit decisions on EEO complaints without an administrative judge's decision. | DOL's rate of timely issuing final agency decisions on the merits was 19.35%. | 19 | |
Use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program. | DOL's ADR offer rate during the pre-complaint stage of the EEO process was 100%. | 100 | |
Resolution of EEO counselings. | DOL resolved 28.81% of EEO counselings at the pre-complaint stage. | 29 | |
Responsiveness and Legal Compliance | Timeliness of submitting complaint files for the hearing. | At the hearing stage, DOL submitted its complaint files to EEOC in an average of 15 days. | 100 |
Timeliness of submitting complaint files on appeal. | At the appellate stage, DOL submitted its complaint files to EEOC in an average of 50 days. | 70 | |
Timeliness of 462 report submission. | DOL submitted its 462 report to EEOC by October 31st, or within the extended time frames granted. | 100 | |
Timeliness of MD-715 report submission. | DOL submitted its MD-715 report to EEOC by January 31st, or within the extended time frames granted. | 100 | |
All | Total Weighted Score: 997 out of 1200. (See Glossary for Weighted Score Formula) |
Q. 35 - Managers/supervisors/team leaders work well with employees of different backgrounds
Q. 43 - Complaints, disputes or grievances are resolved fairly in my work unit
Q. 45 - Prohibited personnel practices (for example, illegally discriminating for or against any employee/applicant, obstructing a person's right to compete for employment, knowingly violating veterans' preference requirements) are not tolerated
Q. 46 - I can disclose a suspected violation of any law, rule or regulation without fear of reprisal
In comparing DOL to the government-wide average, the chart below identifies the percentage of employees who answered "strongly agree" or "agree" to the above questions.
EEO Groups | 2000 Civilian Labor Force (CLF) | FY 2006 Agency Partic. Rate in TWF | Major Occupations | Odds Ratio Analysis of Senior Grade Levels | ||||||||
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Economist | Workers Comp. Claims Examiner | Mine Safety & Health | Promotion Grade | Current Grade | Odds Ratio | Odds | ||||||
Occ. CLF | Partic. Rate | Occ. CLF | Partic. Rate | Occ. CLF | Partic. Rate | |||||||
Male | 53.23% | 49.78% | 69.4% | 62.82% | 35.8% | 38.42% | 53.9% | 95.41% | SES | GS-15 | 1.43 | > |
SES | GS-14/15 | 1.56 | > | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 1.13 | > | |||||||||
Female | 46.77% | 50.22% | 30.6% | 37.18% | 64.2% | 61.58% | 47.1% | 4.59% | SES | GS-15 | 0.69 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.63 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.87 | < | |||||||||
Hispanic/Latino Male | 6.17% | 3.22% | 3.1% | 1.81% | 2.0% | 2.76% | 4.2% | 2.70% | SES | GS-15 | 1.57 | > |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.85 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.43 | < | |||||||||
Hispanic/Latino Female | 4.52% | 3.61% | 2.0% | 1.66% | 4.2% | 3.82% | 3.5% | 0.25% | SES | GS-15 | 1.23 | > |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.98 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.71 | < | |||||||||
White Male | 39.03% | 38.05% | 56.3% | 53.24% | 29.3% | 26.65% | 41.3% | 91.15% | SES | GS-15 | 1.48 | > |
SES | GS-14/15 | 1.78 | > | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 1.33 | > | |||||||||
White Female | 33.74% | 26.61% | 21.6% | 27.15% | 45.5% | 35.99% | 34.1% | 3.77% | SES | GS-15 | 0.67 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.74 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 1.15 | > | |||||||||
Black/African-American Male | 4.84% | 6.10% | 3.2% | 4.83% | 3.0% | 6.50% | 4.5% | 1.23% | SES | GS-15 | 0.70 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.72 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 1.03 | > | |||||||||
Black/African-American Female | 5.66% | 17.16% | 2.4% | 5.96% | 11.4% | 19.17% | 6.9% | 0.41% | SES | GS-15 | 0.76 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.47 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.51 | < | |||||||||
Asian Male | 1.92% | 2.07% | 5.4% | 2.87% | 0.9% | 2.11% | 1.7% | 0.00% | SES | GS-15 | 0.61 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.32 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.42 | < | |||||||||
Asian Female | 1.71% | 2.53% | 3.7% | 2.34% | 1.9% | 2.44% | 1.4% | 0.08% | SES | GS-15 | 1.21 | > |
SES | GS-14/15 | 1.02 | > | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.77 | < | |||||||||
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Male | 0.06% | 0.01% | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0.0% | 0.00% | SES | GS-15 | NA | NA |
SES | GS-14/15 | NA | NA | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | NA | NA | |||||||||
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Female | 0.05% | 0.02% | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0.0% | 0.00% | 0.1% | 0.00% | SES | GS-15 | NA | NA |
SES | GS-14/15 | NA | NA | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | NA | NA | |||||||||
American Indian/Alaska Native Male | 0.34% | 0.33% | 0.4% | 0.08% | 0.1% | 0.41% | 0.4% | 0.33% | SES | GS-15 | 0.00 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.00 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.16 | < | |||||||||
American Indian/Alaska Native Female | 0.32% | 0.30% | 0.1% | 0.08% | 0.2% | 0.16% | 0.4% | 0.08% | SES | GS-15 | 0.00 | < |
SES | GS-14/15 | 0.00 | < | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | 0.61 | < | |||||||||
2 or More Races Male | 0.88% | 0.00% | 1.1% | 0.00% | 0.4% | 0.00% | 0.9% | 0.00% | SES | GS-15 | NA | NA |
SES | GS-14/15 | NA | NA | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | NA | NA | |||||||||
2 or More Races Female | 0.76% | 0.00% | 0.7% | 0.00% | 1.1% | 0.00% | 0.6% | 0.00% | SES | GS-15 | NA | NA |
SES | GS-14/15 | NA | NA | |||||||||
GS-15 | GS-14 | NA | NA | |||||||||
People with Targeted Disabilities* | NA | 1.20% | NA | 0.75% | NA | 0.65% | NA | 0.16% | ||||
*Odds ratio analysis is shown only for race, gender, and ethnicity. Promotion analysis for people with targeted disabilities (PWTD) was deemed inappropriate given the dearth of such persons in the federal workforce.
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