Preparing Your Data for an Affirmative Action Plan: Workforce Snapshot

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Preparing your data for an Affirmative Action Plan is an essential component of your overall compliance strategy. In this presentation, we'll focus on how to prepare your workforce snapshot. Specifically, we'll discuss the kinds of data required, and talk about how and why bad or missing workforce snapshot data can render a data set useless for analysis purposes. Simple techniques for scrubbing data will be presented, and the webinar will conclude with a summary of common data validation tools.

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Preparing Your Datafor an Affirmative Action Plan:Workforce Snapshot Files

presented byCarla Irwin

President of Carla Irwin & Associates

and Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO of Thomas Econometrics

About the Webinar Series

• “Getting Back To Basics”

• Upcoming schedule:– 11/9: Applicant Flow

– 11/30: Compensation

• Series 2: “OFCCP Scheduling Letter Preparedness”

Overview

• Data requirements

• Missing data and its effects

• Data scrubbing and validation

Required Data

• Employee‐level data

• Fields to be populated– Employee Name/Number;

– Race/Gender/Ethnicity;

– Job Title; 

– EEO‐1 / Job Group / Census Code / FLSA Status / FT or PT Status

– Department, Location;

– Hire / rehire / termination / promotion dates;

– Salary Grade / Compensation information;

– Manager Name

Non‐AAP Suggested Data

• Expanded demographic information on other protected characteristics– Age 

– Disability status*

– Veteran status*

– Marital status

– Sexual orientation

Required Documentation

• Electronically‐maintained information used in employment decisions:– Hire / rehire / promotion / termination;

– Compensation;

– FT / PT Status;

– FLSA Status (exempt / nonexempt);

– Leaves of Absence, FMLA, Accommodations, etc.

– Any other information considered when making employment decisions

Common Missing Data Points

• Employee ID

• Manager Name

• FLSA Status

• Census Code

• Salary Grade / Band

• Recent Hires

• Recent Terms

Common Data Pitfalls

• Timing Issues– Including employees terminated prior to snapshot date;

– Including employees hired after snapshot date.

• Incorrect job title, job group, location, department, pay rate, etc.

The Effect of Missing Data

• Bad Data = Bad AAP

• Inaccurate conclusions– Where are your real issues?

• Time / Expense / Resources– Internal cost

– External cost

• Audit & Litigation Issues

Data Scrubbing & Validation

• Do We Have the Right People?

• Do We Have the Right Codes?

• Are We Consistent?

• Where Are Our Data Gaps?

Data Scrubbing & Validation

It’s an interactive process

Conclusion

• The Workforce Snapshot is the “foundation data” for the Affirmative Action Plan

Carla IrwinPresident of Carla Irwin & Associates

cirwin@hrlinkgroup.com815.254.0690

www.carlairwininc.com

& Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO of Thomas Econometricssthomas@thomasecon.com

215.642.0072www.thomasecon.com