Do recipients or subrecipients in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have to comply with the EEOP Short Form requirement?
Although the U.S. Census Bureau has collected extensive data on Puerto Rico, the relevant labor market files for preparing an EEOP Short Form are not readily available. Therefore, the online system for creating the EEOP Short Form cannot access this information. In the past, recipients in Puerto Rico have used, and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has accepted, alternative labor market data collected by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or local jurisdictions. In preparing an EEOP Short Form, recipients in Puerto Rico should focus primarily on sex: reporting the number and percentage of women in the recipient’s workforce in each of the eight major job categories and then comparing this percentage to the percentage of qualified women in each of the same job categories in the relevant labor market. If there is significant underutilization, the recipient should analyze the result and propose, if warranted, objectives to correct the problem and the steps it plans to take to achieve the obje
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