WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a report indicating progress in compliance with the requirement that EEO (equal employment opportunity) directors at federal agencies report directly to the heads of those agencies. The EEOC has long held that a direct reporting structure — where the head of the agency supervises the person with day-to-day control of the agency’s EEO program — must be established to maintain an effective and compliant EEO program. The Elijah E. Cummings Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2020 (Cummings Act) was the first statute to mandate a direct reporting structure for the federal government.
This report relies on empirical evidence the EEOC has gathered over the years and combines several of these sources to provide a comprehensive assessment of agencies’ reporting structures following the passage of the Cummings Act. First, the EEOC examined data from agencies’ MD-715 and Form 462 reports from fiscal year (FY) 2019 and FY 2020. EEOC researchers categorized these agencies by size and identified relevant trends in compliance to provide recommendations for further action. The results of the EEOC’s FY 2021 survey of federal sector EEO directors were also incorporated in this section. The EEOC found:
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