Labor Department tells senators it’s too ‘complex’ to collect sexual harassment data – ThinkProgress
[ad_1] The Labor Department told Democratic senators that it can’t collect data on sexual harassment in the workplace because it would be “complex and costly.” On Monday, Democratic senators dismissed that justification. In January, 22 Democratic senators sent a letter to labor department officials requesting the department act on studying sexual harassment. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) signed the letter and Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA) Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and others co-signed the letter, according to BuzzFeed. Referring to the #MeToo movement, the letter noted that “there has not been an exact accounting of the extent of this discrimination and the magnitude of its economic costs on the labor force. We therefore request your agencies work to collect this data.” CNN was the first to obtain the Labor Department’s response, which was addressed to Gillibrand. The department’s letter read , “There are a number of steps involved in any new data collection,...