The Los Angeles Fire Commission waded into the controversy over the city Fire Department’s hiring practices Tuesday, debating what needs to be done to increase the number of women and minorities in future classes of new firefighters.
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Showing posts with label diversity policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diversity policy. Show all posts
Monday, November 23, 2015
LAFD's new recruitment chief on diversity: 'We have work to do'
By Ben Welsh, Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
CFPB releases diversity and inclusion plan for 2016 – 2020
Buckley Sander LLP
On October 27, following a March 4 CFPB Office of the Inspector General report on the CFPB’s diversity and inclusion efforts, the CFPB released a five-year Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. Based on regulations and guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Dodd-Frank Act, the plan is built around the following objectives: (i) recruit a diverse workforce; (ii) enable individuals to contribute to their full potential; (iii) ensure sustainability of the plan; (iv) increase opportunities for minority and women owned businesses; and (v) assess diversity practices of regulated entities. Regarding the fifth objective, the report states that, through the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, the CFPB will use interagency policy standards to assess regulated entities’ diversity and inclusion policies and procedures and collect baseline data that will serve as a survey of best practices for institutions.
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On October 27, following a March 4 CFPB Office of the Inspector General report on the CFPB’s diversity and inclusion efforts, the CFPB released a five-year Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. Based on regulations and guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Dodd-Frank Act, the plan is built around the following objectives: (i) recruit a diverse workforce; (ii) enable individuals to contribute to their full potential; (iii) ensure sustainability of the plan; (iv) increase opportunities for minority and women owned businesses; and (v) assess diversity practices of regulated entities. Regarding the fifth objective, the report states that, through the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, the CFPB will use interagency policy standards to assess regulated entities’ diversity and inclusion policies and procedures and collect baseline data that will serve as a survey of best practices for institutions.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Coalition Asks FCC to Focus on Diversity in Quadrennial Ownership Rule Review
Broadcasting and Cable
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights says FCC has no meaningful policies to address racial and gender inequalities in media ownership
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/2/2011 4:55:34 PM
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has written the FCC to ask that it focus on diversity in its quadrennial ownership rule review. In addition to the congressional mandate for the review, the FCC is also taking a fresh look on orders from the Third Circuit, which remanded its last rule changes back to the commission in July for a better explanation of the diversity efforts as part of its last rule revision in 2007.
Full Story: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/477409-Coalition_Asks_FCC_to_Focus_on_Diversity_in_Quadrennial_Ownership_Rule_Review.php
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights says FCC has no meaningful policies to address racial and gender inequalities in media ownership
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/2/2011 4:55:34 PM
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has written the FCC to ask that it focus on diversity in its quadrennial ownership rule review. In addition to the congressional mandate for the review, the FCC is also taking a fresh look on orders from the Third Circuit, which remanded its last rule changes back to the commission in July for a better explanation of the diversity efforts as part of its last rule revision in 2007.
Full Story: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/477409-Coalition_Asks_FCC_to_Focus_on_Diversity_in_Quadrennial_Ownership_Rule_Review.php
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