Sec. 143.5. Work force diversity reporting requirements for contracting agencies

(a) The director may require contracting agencies to report to the division on the information contained in the work force employment utilization reports in a form and manner required by the director quarterly on the 15th day of January, April, July, and October of each year. The contracting agency's report shall include, but is not limited to, the following information regarding the State contracts for which the State agency received work force utilization reports on during the preceding quarterly interval:

(1) an aggregation, by location of work, of the work forces employed on all State contracts in the industries of commodities, services/consulting, and professional construction consulting broken down by ethnic background, gender and Federal occupational categories;

(2) for construction contracts, an aggregation, by location of work, of the hours worked during the reporting period on activities related to those contracts, and a breakdown of those hours by ethnic background, gender and the construction related job titles that fall within relevant Federal occupational categories; and

(3) a list of all contracts included in the aggregation of data, contract number, contract amount and location of work.

(b) Where required by the director, contracting agencies shall submit to the division on a semi-annual basis copies of the total work force data submitted by contractors in the cases where the work force utilized on a State contract could not be separated out from the contractor's and/or subcontractor's total work force.

(c) Where a State agency enters into a State contract with a total expenditure in excess of $250,000 contractors shall submit company workforce diversity data to the State agency prior to the execution the subject State contract. The director shall provide each State agency with a company workforce diversity data form for data collection purposes.