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The Government Has Reversed Its Policy on Silicon Valley Diversity Data

posted by mrpg on Monday November 26 2018, @08:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the hire-me-I'm-smart dept.

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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.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 27 2018, @02:35AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday November 27 2018, @02:35AM (#766772) Journal

    Addressing poverty would do it. Poverty has racial components, including one very few people think of: poor white folks resenting the hell out of poor $MINORITY folks "gettin' somethin' fer nothin'." And you know, they have a point.

    Now there's no way to address poverty in a race-blind way, because of the above, but I can't help but think that if said angry poor white folks realized they have a hell of a lot more in common with poor $MINORITY folks than with rich white folks, things would change, and right quick too. In fact, I have to agree with the earlier poster's cynical assessment of the race issue being used by the elites, on both sides, to divide and conquer.

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