Rainbow PUSH Wants More Hiring Data From Tech Industry
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition wants greater tech industry openness with data about hiring diversity. "It's time to take stock of what has been done" since the start of PUSH Tech 2020, the organization's campaign to have a number of tech…
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companies release workforce diversity data and their EEO-1 reports, Rainbow PUSH said in an open letter. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website said those reports were due Sept. 30. That data "exposed the virtual exclusion of blacks and Latinos from the boardrooms, C-suites and workforces of technology companies," Rainbow PUSH said. Now, the organization is advocating that companies also detail the number of new hires made over the past year and what percentage were African-American or Latino, detail the gender and racial makeups of their boards and top leadership, make public the affirmative action plan provided to the federal Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, describe new diversity and inclusion policies and practices, and list any new training or incentives to current workers to help reach company goals. Rainbow PUSH said it hopes to receive the information by Sept. 30, as it plans to use it as the foundation for a PUSH Tech 2020 report. "Companies must set specific, quantifiable diversity and inclusion goals, targets and timetables," Rainbow PUSH President Jesse Jackson Sr. said in the open letter dated Thursday and released to us Tuesday. "Without them, the ability to measure and be accountable for progress will be difficult." The letter said an attempt last year by the group to get such information from 25 tech companies was unsuccessful: "The response was overwhelming. Iconic Silicon Valley companies previously went to court to prevent the release of their data." Among companies getting the new letter were Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Pandora, Qualcomm, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo and Yelp. The Internet Association, which according to its website includes some of those companies as members, had no immediate comment Tuesday.