On January 12, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced the launch of a new initiative, Hiring Initiative to Reimagine Equity (HIRE), to reimagine hiring practices to advance equal employment opportunity. The goal of this initiative is to identify innovative and evidence-based practices that will help workers from underrepresented communities gain access to good jobs and help employers utilize their talent across America’s workforce.
HIRE is a collaborative effort that will engage a broad array of stakeholders with the goal of expanding access to good jobs for workers from underrepresented communities and addressing key hiring and recruitment challenges these workers face. HIRE will also work to remove hiring barriers that limit opportunity along the lines of race, color, ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+ status, religion, disability, age and veteran status by:
Hosting convenings on organizational policy and practices to reimagine equity and expand opportunity in hiring;
Identifying strategies to remove unnecessary barriers to hiring and to promote effective, job-related hiring and recruitment practices to cultivate a diverse pool of qualified workers;
Promoting equity in the use of tech-based hiring systems; and
Developing resources to promote adoption of innovative and evidence-based recruiting and hiring practices that advance equity.
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