Sec. 402. Collection, analysis, and dissemination of workforce data
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, which shall also be posted on a publicly available website of the Department in a searchable database format, that includes disaggregated demographic data and other information regarding the diversity of the workforce of the Department. The report under subsection
(a)shall include the following data: Demographic data on each element of the workforce of the Department, disaggregated by rank and grade or grade-equivalent, with respect to the following groups: Applicants for positions in the Department. Individuals hired to join the workforce. Individuals promoted during the 2-year period ending on the date of the enactment of this Act, including promotions to and within the Senior Executive Service or the Senior Foreign Service. Individuals serving on applicable selection boards. Members of any external advisory committee or board who are subject to appointment by individuals at senior positions in the Department. Individuals participating in professional development programs of the Department, and the extent to which such participants have been placed into senior positions within the Department after such participation. Individuals participating in mentorship or retention programs. Individuals who separated from the agency during the 2-year period ending on the date of the enactment of this Act, including individuals in the Senior Executive Service or the Senior Foreign Service. An assessment of agency compliance with the essential elements identified in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Management Directive 715, effective October 1, 2003. Data on the overall number of individuals who are part of the workforce, the percentages of such workforce corresponding to each element listed in section 401(4), and the percentages corresponding to each rank, grade, or grade-equivalent. The Secretary may include in the report under subsection
(a)a recommendation to the Director of Office of Management and Budget and to the appropriate congressional committees regarding whether the Department should collect more detailed data on demographic categories in addition to the race and ethnicity categories specified in the Office of Management and Budget statistical policy directive entitled Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (81 Fed. Reg. 67398). The report under subsection
(a)shall also describe the efforts of the Department— to propagate fairness, impartiality, and inclusion in the work environment, both domestically and abroad; to enforce anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies; to refrain from engaging in unlawful discrimination in any phase of the employment process, including recruitment, hiring, evaluation, assignments, promotion, retention, and training; to prevent illegal retaliation against employees for participating in a protected equal employment opportunity activity; to provide reasonable accommodation for qualified employees and applicants with disabilities; and to recruit a representative workforce by— recruiting women and minorities; recruiting at women’s colleges, historically Black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, and other institutions serving a significant percentage of minority students; placing job advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and job sites oriented toward women and minorities; sponsoring and recruiting at job fairs in urban and rural communities and land-grant colleges or universities; providing opportunities through the Foreign Service Internship Program under chapter 12 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 4141 et seq.) and other hiring initiatives; recruiting mid-level and senior-level professionals through programs designed to increase minority representation in international affairs; offering the Foreign Service written and oral assessment examinations in several locations throughout the United States to reduce the burden of applicants having to travel at their own expense to take either or both such examinations; and support recruiting and hiring opportunities through— the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship Program; the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program; the Donald M. Payne International Development Fellowship Program; and other initiatives, including agency-wide policy initiatives. Not later than one year after the publication of the report required under subsection
(a)and annually thereafter for the following five years, the Secretary shall work with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to provide a report to the appropriate congressional committees, which shall be posted on the Department’s website, which may be included in another annual report required under another provision of law, that includes— disaggregated demographic data relating to the workforce and information on the status of diversity and inclusion efforts of the Department; an analysis of applicant flow data; and disaggregated demographic data relating to participants in professional development programs of the Department and the rate of placement into senior positions for participants in such programs.
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