DCI Consulting Blog

By Joanna Colosimo and Mitchell Chamberlin

On August 21, 2026, the Department of Labor (DOL) is expected to formally publish three final rules affecting federal contractor obligations under the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’...

By Benjamin Kerner

BLOG OVERVIEW: Greece became the fifth EU Member State to complete transposition of the EU Pay Transparency Directive, publishing Law 5316/2026 in the Government Gazette on July 6, 2026 after a July 2 parliamentary vote. The law...

By Zhuang Liu

BLOG OVERVIEW: The EU Pay Transparency Directive sets no fine levels of its own, leaving those to the 27 member states, and the resulting national regimes vary enormously. Many member states are folding pay transparency violations into...

By Sally Makreff

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Estonia’s Riigikogu adopted amendments to the Employment Contracts Act on June 17, 2026, effective July 13, 2026, that transpose only the recruitment transparency portions of the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Estonia...

By Don Lustenberger

BLOG OVERVIEW: The EU Pay Transparency Directive requires employers to group workers into categories performing the same work or work of equal value, formed in a non-arbitrary manner on objective, gender-neutral criteria....

A Note from DCI: Compliance obligations for federal contractors, grant recipients, and employers have been rewritten faster than most organizations can absorb. FedAssure™ exists because our clients needed a defensible way to assess and document...

By Joanna Colosimo and Fred Satterwhite

BLOG OVERVIEW: On July 21, 2026, the EEOC voted 2-1 to advance a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would rescind the EEO-1 and its related EEO reports. The vote authorizes the Commission to publish the...

By Sally Makreff

BLOG OVERVIEW: Earlier this year, Lithuania became one of the first EU member states to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive, enacting Labour Code amendments effective June 7, 2026 while delaying compensation-system updates...

By Dave Sharrer

BLOG OVERVIEW: In 2025–2026, the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) issued several updates to the Equal Pay Registration Certificate (EPRC) program. Key changes include adding a "Middle Eastern or North African" (MENA) demographic...

By Zhuang Liu

BLOG OVERVIEW: Italy has officially transposed the EU Pay Transparency Directive through Legislative Decree No. 96/2026, effective June 7, 2026. Employers must now base pay and classification systems on objective, gender-neutral...

By Don Lustenberger

BLOG OVERVIEW: With the June 7, 2026 transposition deadline now passed, this Ask the Navigator question from DCI's monthly EU Pay Transparency Navigator newsletter examines how the first Member States to enact Pay Transparency...

By Murray Simpson, Ph.D.

BLOG OVERVIEW: Justifying a gender pay gap of at least 5% under the EU Pay Transparency Directive means identifying objective, gender-neutral factors that explain the gap and confirming that it falls below the 5% threshold...