Federal labor officials have decided to reverse their longtime policy and release diversity numbers for government contractors such as Oracle and Palantir Technologies in response to a lawsuit filed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Reveal submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for the workplace statistics of those and other tech companies as part of a project analyzing the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. We requested the companies’ official EEO-1 reports, which show the race and gender numbers for total US employees grouped by broad job categories.
But five companies – Oracle, Palantir, Pandora Media, Gilead Sciences and Splunk – objected to the requests, claiming that the diversity data is a trade secret. In each case, the US Department of Labor initially agreed with the companies and denied Reveal’s FOIA requests.
[...] On Oct. 30, the Labor Department notified the five government contractors that it would disclose their diversity numbers over their objections. Citing the lawsuit, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs told the companies that it has “undertaken a supplemental review” and “will initiate disclosure.” The companies had until Nov. 19 to take legal action to stop the release of the data.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26 2018, @10:36PM (1 child)
Affirmative action is based on things like race and gender, not class. I guess it's not being done properly. then?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:09AM
Some aspects of affirmative action are in fact done on class indicators. A really big one that all top universities use in admissions is geography: You can generally tell how rich a family is by where they live, because that's very directly tied to housing prices.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.