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Report notes trends in federal work force
08.08.2006By law, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is charged with monitoring the federal government's commitment to equal employment opportunity and identifying areas that need improvement.
The overall goal is to make sure that the federal government is a model employer for the nation.
Working with the Office of Personnel Management, the EEOC recently issued a status report. This wide-ranging study from 2005 includes a 10-year profile of the changing composition of the federal work force.
Here are some of the findings:
Over the past decade, the number of federal workers increased from 2,532,507 in 1996 to 2,610,920 in 2005. Men continued to dominate the federal work force (57.01 percent) but at a rate somewhat lower than during the preceding decade (58.40 percent).
The percentage of white employees in the federal work force dropped over this period, with the number of white men down by 2.64 percent and the number of white women down by 0.33 percent. Currently, 66.49 percent of federal workers are white.
The number of Hispanic men and women increased by 0.66 percent and 0.15 percent, respectively. Hispanics now account for 7.61 percent of the federal workforce population.
A decrease in the number of black men of 0.18 percent was reported, while black women saw a 0.16 percent increase. Overall, black men and women comprise 18.29 percent of the federal work force.
The remaining 8 percent includes Asian-Americans, American Indians, Alaskan natives and individuals with targeted disabilities.
The EEOC identified a potential problem area in the hiring of individuals with disabilities. Over the past 10 years, the federal work force expanded by more than 78,000 but the number of employees with disabilities fell from 29,930 in 1996 to 25,142 in 2005--a decrease of more than 16 percent.
To reverse this trend, the EEOC is encouraging federal agencies to identify personnel policies, practices and procedures that impede the hiring and placement of individuals with disabilities.
Besides providing prompt and effective, reasonable workplace accommodations, EEOC wants agencies to increase employee awareness of attitudinal barriers that may exist. In addition, EEOC recommends development of special recruitment programs and the use of internships and part-time and temporary hiring at all grade levels and occupations to boost these sagging rates.
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