Task force announced to improve diversity in state workforce (NY)

Empire State News.net
Friday, April 3, 2009

ALBANY - Governor David Paterson Thursday announced the creation of a taskforce that will devise a strategy for revitalizing New York State’s effort to diversify its workforce and ensure a fair share of state contracts go to businesses owned by minorities and women.
The creation of the task force follows the release of the Department of Civil Service diversity report, which showed some discrepancies in minority representation between the state workforce and the overall statewide labor force.
The diversity report looks at the representation of women and minorities in the State workforce by comparing each group as a proportion of the state workforce in 1998 to 2008. The report found that some groups are underrepresented in the state workforce, including Hispanics, who make up 4.4 percent of the state workforce but nearly 13 percent of the overall statewide labor force. Persons with disabilities make up 3.5 percent of state workers but 10.9 percent of all workers.
The report finds the proportion of women and African Americans in the state workforce are approximately equal to their proportions in the overall statewide labor force.

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