White employees twice as likely to be promoted to management at the VA – By Federal Times Staff (Federal Times) / Oct 16 2020
Over the past four years, white employees working at the Department of Veterans Affairs stood a much higher shot of being promoted into a management position than their Black counterparts, according to data obtained by the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents approximately 265,000 workers at the agency.
Between 2017 and July 2020, approximately 3.6 percent of applications for management positions were selected for promotion. But that chance for promotion was not evenly distributed among all employees, according to the data that was obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.
White employees who applied for management positions at the VA had an average 4.6 percent chance of being selected, whereas Black employees had an average 2.4 percent chance.
And while the VA has more than double the number of white employees as Black employees, according to Office of Personnel Management employment data, the promotion percentages were based on the number of successful applications each for Black and white employees, not calculated based on the total workforce demographics or total number of applications.
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