The Obama administration asked all major federal agencies on Wednesday to analyze their personnel practices in order to ensure enough Hispanics are being hired and promoted in the government.
“In light of the persistent low representation of Hispanic/Latinos in the federal workforce, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agree… that federal agencies with at least 1,000 full-time equivalent employees should conduct a more focused barrier analysis on Hispanic employment,” the Office of Personnel Management wrote in a memo to agencies.
“This analysis should focus on employees at the GS-12 through Senior Executive Service levels to identify and eradicate any barriers to equal employment opportunity, consistent with the merit system principles and applicable laws,” it said.
Those analyses should “identify and eradicate any barriers to equal employment opportunity.”
It should include summaries of outreach efforts aimed at Hispanics, how many Hispanics apply for jobs, how many are promoted, and how many participate in leadership positions, the memo said.
It also called for agencies to develop solutions. That should include a “summary of strategies the agency will take to strengthen pipelines and improve retention and upward mobility for Hispanic/Latino employees,” and a summary of “best practices that show success or improvement in an agency’s Hispanic/Latino employment.”
It’s one of the last memos that OPM will release under President Obama, whose term ends Friday at noon.
