Workforce Goals

• People of color and Indigenous people: 32%
• Women: 20%

Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Scott and Washington Counties

• People of color and Indigenous people: 22% 

• Women: 15%

Central Minnesota

Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, McLeod, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Pine, Renville, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties 

• People of color and Indigenous people: 15%
• Women: 12%

Southwest Minnesota

Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault, Jackson, Lac qui Parle, Le Sueur, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin, Murray, Nicollet, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock, Sibley, Swift, Waseca, Watonwan, and Yellow Medicine Counties

• People of color and Indigenous people: 15%
• Women: 9%

Southeast Minnesota

Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona Counties

• People of color and Indigenous people: 15%
• Women: 9%

Northeast Minnesota

Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties

• People of color and Indigenous people: 12%
• Women: 9%

Northwest Minnesota

Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing, Douglas, Grant, Hubbard, Kittson, Mahnomen, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Morrison, Norman, Otter Tail, Pennington, Polk, Pope, Red Lake, Roseau, Stevens, Todd, Traverse, Wadena, and Wilkin Counties

• People of color and Indigenous people: 12%
• Women: 9%

Examples of Good Faith Efforts

At the Facility and/or Job-site

• Post EEO policy and anti-harassment policies prominently on employee bulletin boards and job sites. Update at least once a year with new contact information and signature of chief executive officer.
• Post all government-mandated posters (MN, federal, local) in areas available to employees and applicants and on all job sites.
• All job sites to the extent possible should be accessible to people with disabilities, specifically people with mobility impairments (restrooms, break-rooms, etc.). If all restrooms are not accessible, provide comparable facilities for people with disabilities.
• Check employee locker rooms, break rooms, restrooms, and work areas (job sites) for potentially offensive cartoons, etc.

Recruiting

• All personnel involved in hiring, selection, promotion, disciplinary and related processes should be trained to ensure the elimination of bias (implicit bias training) in personnel actions
• Include an EEO tagline or similar statement in all want ads or other external job announcements. If you post jobs on your web site, include an EEO tagline.
• Communicate to the union to ensure that the union accepts people for membership in a nondiscriminatory way and that they refer people to jobs fairly.
• Make formal and informal contact with community organizations, apprenticeship training organizations, and unions, and other recruitment organizations (specifically those organizations that focus on women, people of color, Indigenous people, and people with disabilities) that may be able to refer qualified applicants for jobs you have available.
• Provide training, preparation and workplace accommodations so that people with disabilities can have rewarding careers.
• Contact the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Vocational Rehabilitation Services unit for the purpose of forming partnerships to help prepare people with disabilities for meaningful employment opportunities.
• Participate in construction community job fairs or other construction-related events.
• When using paid advertising, include news media or websites geared toward women, communities of color, and/or people with disabilities.

Selection and Hiring

• Review your application form and remove any questions that are not job-related. Include an EEO statement on the form itself. Review the application to make sure no illegal/potentially illegal information is requested.
• Review EEO/Applicant tracking surveys: they should ask for necessary tracking information only and should be clearly marked as voluntary. Remove the forms from the application itself before the selection process begins.
• Make sure supervisors are using legal criteria in their hiring decisions.
• If you use any pre-employment tests (math tests, typing tests, skill tests, "personality" or "integrity" tests), these tests should directly relate to the jobs for which they're used.

Termination of Employment

• Develop a written termination policy and/or progressive discipline policy. All supervisors should implement your process consistently.
• If appropriate, conduct exit interviews or administer exit surveys.

Employee Files and Record-Keeping

• Retain all information that could reveal age, race, disability, religion, etc. as confidentially as possible. (I-9 forms, insurance forms, medical leave requests, etc.)
• An employee's file should tell the complete story of this employee's history with your company: orientation, training, performance evaluations, wage increases, promotion information, disciplinary notices, etc. All pay increases should be documented, and nondiscriminatory reasons for pay should be obvious. (Some companies create a checklist for each employee file so that they can be certain that all important documentation is retained.)
• Retain applications for at least a year. Develop an applicant flow log or similar tracking system. Make sure that you can track each applicant back to their EEO survey or affirmative action data page, if completed. (You cannot conduct a meaningful analysis of your selection process without this information.)
• All files of terminated employees should show the reason for termination, whether voluntary or involuntary.

Other 

• Conduct training for all employees of your EEO and anti-harassment policies in safety meetings at the beginning of each project and additionally throughout the year for new hires. Emphasize reporting procedures.
• If you are required, solicit people of color, Indigenous, and female-owned businesses to participate in subcontracts or vendor contracts.

Workforce Participation for Large State Projects

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights posts workforce participation rates on large state construction projects on a regular basis because of the impact these projects have on employment opportunities in Minnesota for people of color, Indigenous people, and/or women.

Latest Statewide Active Projects Over 10,000 Hours

• Download the latest Statewide Active Projects Report As of July 31, 2023 (PDF)

• Contractor Name: The state contractor working on the project.
• Project Name & Contracting Agency: Details regarding the project and the state agency contracting the work.
• Project Hours to Date: The number of hours completed on a project to date.
• People of Color and Indigenous People Participation/Goal: The level of participation by people of color is expressed as a percentage of the total number of work hours performed by all employees. The people of color and Indigenous people goal for the project is expressed as a percentage of the number of work hours expected to be performed.
• Women Participation/Goal: The level of participation for women is expressed as a percentage of the total number of work hours performed by all employees. The goal for women for the project is expressed as a percentage of the number of work hours expected to be performed.
• Start/End: The start and anticipated completion date for the project.
• County: The County in which the work is being performed.

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