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GAO-09-255R 1 (2009-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanlq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im T V WAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 January 12, 2009 The Honorable Danny K. Davis House of Representatives Subject: U.S. Postal Service: Age and Disability Diversity in the Executive Service Dear Mr. Davis: Equal opportunity in the federal workplace is intended to result in a diverse and highly qualified workforce. Such a workplace uses the talents of all employees- without regard to factors such as employees' race, ethnicity, gender, and disability status. Diversity within an agency's senior executive ranks, including the U.S. Postal Service's (Service) Postal Career Executive Service (PCES), is particularly important because it allows agencies to draw upon a wider variety of perspectives and approaches to address the wide array of challenges facing the federal government. The Service had 959 employees in the PCES during fiscal year 2000 and 867 PCES employees during fiscal year 2007.' In April 2008, we reported on the demographic representation of employees in the Service's PCES (which includes postal officers and executives) and certain levels of the Service's Executive and Administrative Schedule (a pool of candidates for the Service's managerial and executive leadership positions). We provided these data for the end of fiscal year 2007, as well as baseline data from fiscal year 1999, which we previously reported for those positions.2 As requested, this report provides additional information on the demographic representation of employees who were in the PCES at any time during fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2007. Specifically, this report provides information on (1) the average age at which these employees entered the 'Data on the universe of PCES employees in this report differ from data in the Service's fiscal year 2000 and fiscal year 2007 comprehensive statements. According to these statements, there were 859 PCES employees as of the end of fiscal year 2000 and 748 PCES employees as of the end of fiscal year 2007. The number of PCES employees identified in this report are higher than those published previously principally because, for this report, we have included everyone in the PCES during fiscal years 2000 and 2007-not just those on board as of the end of each fiscal year. See U.S. Postal Service, 2000 Comprehensive Statement on Postal Operations (Washington, D.C., 2001) and U.S. Postal Service, 2007 Comprehensive Statement on Postal Operations (Washington, D.C., 2008). 2GAO, Human Capital: Diversity in the Federal SES and Senior Levels of the U.S. Postal Service and Processes for Selecting New Executives, GAO-08-609T (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 3, 2008); and U.S. Postal Service: Diversity in the Postal Career Executive Service, GAO/GGD-00-76 (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 30, 2000). GAO-09-255R USPS Diversity

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