Diversity Data for Thousands of Federal Contractors to Go Public

Diversity data for thousands of federal contractors is now in the hands of a nonprofit journalism outlet after years of legal bickering over its release by the US Labor Department.

The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs handed over EEO-1 reports for 19,289 federal contractors to media outlets and posted them on the agency’s website on Monday. The EEO-1 form, which every federal contractor with 50 or more employees must file, includes demographic information about employees divided by gender, race and ethnicity, and job category.

The data is responsive to a Freedom of Information Act request the Center for ...