Tiny Labor Agency Struggles to Meet Huge Diversity Data Request

Federal contractors have until March 17 to object to their diversity data being disclosed by the Labor Department as part of an open-records request process that has now taken over six months and has been riddled with delays and errors.

The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has struggled to produce an accurate list of contractors who don’t object to their workforce diversity data being disclosed in response to a massive Freedom of Information Act request from a journalism nonprofit.

The small subagency that enforces antidiscrimination laws and standards on companies that do business with the government has released ...