D-Md., and a member of the task force s senior leadership committee. Task force members thought that the issues and the problems were pretty clear. More than 70 agency leaders, union officials and reform advocates who made up the task force offered a range of views on how to improve the complaint process. They also solicited opinions from employees and experts through a series of town hall meetings. One of the main issues the task force will address is the way agencies collect and report information on discrimination complaints.
Agencies have no standard guidelines.
As a result, data is often outdated, unreliable and insufficient in identifying trends or patterns of discrimination that could help prevent future incidents. Rious said the task force plans to recommend that the EEOC tell agencies what specific information they should be collecting as they process complaints. The group also may recommend creating a central database that would include every EEO case filed. Some media reported the database would track almost 500 pieces of data about every complaint, including names and Social Security numbers of those named in the complaints. A top task force official who spoke to Federal Times on condition of anonymity said the media reports were inaccurate and that any database would store only a small amount of information.