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From Tom Paine: One Less Eye On Inequality
An article from Tom Paine discussing another attempt to rollback anti-discrimination law.
One Less Eye On Inequality, Marcia D. Greenberger, October 02, 2006Marcia Greenberger is Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center .
For the last five years, the Bush administration has repeatedly undermined laws and policies that support workplace equality for women. The latest blow in this continual assault came when the Department of Labor announced that it would eliminate a critical anti-discrimination tool, the Equal Opportunity Survey, which is needed to ensure that companies receiving federal dollars provide equal employment opportunities to their workers.
The elimination of the survey is a big win for federal contractors that receive millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded government contracts every year but want to evade scrutiny of their pay practices. The Department of Labor’s ideological decision to gut the survey is the latest in a list of administration actions that undermine the civil rights protections and family-friendly policies that are particularly important to women in the workforce.
The EO Survey was finalized in 2000 as a tool to detect and deter discrimination by federal contractors. Before the survey, the labor department was able to examine only 4 percent of contractors each year—not much of an enforcement threat. The survey would have enabled better targeting of the labor department’s enforcement efforts by requiring all 100,000 federal contractors to submit hard data on their employment practices such as hiring, promotions, terminations and pay.
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