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By Doug Cunningham

The U.S. Department of Labor is eliminating the Equal Opportunity Survey, a tool for identifying and investigating federal contractors that discriminate against women and people of color. Jocelyn Samuels of the national Women’s Law Center says this is the latest in an across the board undermining of civil liberties protections by the Bush administration…

[Jocelyn Samuels]: “This decision to rescind the Equal Opportunity Survey will be a tremendous disservice to enforcement efforts and to the employees in the workforce who are intended to be protected."

Samuels says elimination of the Equal Opportunity Survey lets federal contractors who discriminate off the hook and fails to protect workers from sex and race discrimination in federal projects.