MnDOT Business Contracting

About the measures

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) sets workforce participation goals for each county to apply to state funded and general obligation funded construction projects over $100,000. MDHR and MnDOT OCR have executed a Joint Powers Agreement to monitor the good faith efforts of contractors to meet these workforce participation goals.

In general, the workforce participation goals - expressed as a percentage of total labor hours performed by women and people of color - seek to reduce barriers to workforce entry, respond to demographic changes, and prepare for Minnesota's emerging workforce shortage.

This infographic outlines contractors' workforce participation on MnDOT projects in comparison to the statewide average.

Data source: MnDOT Office of Civil Rights

Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan: System Stewardship

These measures help us gauge how well MnDOT and our contractor partners are doing the following:

Reducing barriers to workforce entry, responding to demographic changes, and preparing for Minnesota's emerging workforce shortage.

Where we want to go

MnDOT works to ensure the development of a skilled and diverse highway construction workforce through its enforcement of state and federal laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to equal employment opportunity. The agency prioritizes the importance of the workforce participation goals to its contractor partners.