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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Implementation of Local Law 13 and EEPC's research efforts
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Jeanne Victor outlines the EEPC's efforts in implementing Local Law 13 of 2019 and conducting research to address underutilization in the city's workforce.
- The research unit is focused on a ten-year project to analyze racial and ethnic classification underutilization citywide.
- In 2024, the EEPC conducted a pilot project to assess city agencies' efforts in ensuring equal employment opportunities.
- The EEPC is creating a handbook for agency EEO officers to understand audit standards and compliance requirements.
Jeanne Victor
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Our research unit is primarily focused on fulfilling the requirements of local law 13 of twenty nineteen, which over a period of ten years requires the EEPC to conduct a citywide analysis of racial and ethnic classification under utilization and provide recommendations for addressing among other things, a, chronic or systemic under utilization, b, how the city might reach citywide affirmative employment objectives, and c, increased diversity in the recruitment, selection, retention, and promotion of city employees.
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We are commencing year five of this ten year project.
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Project.
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Throughout 2024, the EEPC's research team conducted a pilot project to review and assess certain aspects of a city's city agency's efforts to ensure women and people of color have equal employment opportunities.
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The ultimate purpose of the pilot project is to better understand what city agencies are doing to address under utilization and develop practical recommendations for entities to continue to reduce it.
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Also in 2024, the EEPC proposed a creation of a handbook, which is currently in the process being prepared for use by the agency's EEO officers.
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The purpose of the handbook is to ensure all EEO officers understand the EEPC's audit standards and what they need to do to ensure their agency can get into and stay in compliance before, during, and after the EEPCs audit.
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In addition to our regular work on audits and local law 13, planned projects for 2025 include identifying those obstacles that often impede the hiring and promotion of women and people of color into those job groups with systemic underutilization.