By: Benjamin Kerner
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has updated their EEO Data Collectionsinformation pageto provideguidance on how to proceed as an EEO-1 report filer past the original deadline of Tuesday, December 5, 2023....
By: Bill Osterndorf and Evan Szarenski
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for federal contractors involved in construction projects. The new FAQs...
By: Keli Wilson
The Commerce Department is taking steps to operationalize diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) program best practices through a Diversity Business Principles (DBP) initiative, which was published in the Federal...
By: Dave Schmidt and Bre Timko
On October 30, 2023 President Biden signed the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. It covers a very wide range of areas related to the use of artificial...
By: Evan Szarenski
On November 1, OFCCP announced that it is updating its complaint filing process. Now, potential complainants will have the option of submitting a pre-complaint inquiry before filing an official complaint.
A pre-complaint...
By: Bill Osterndorf
On Friday, October 6, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that there would be 12 additional compliance reviews of construction megaprojects. The agency had previouslyprovided a list of 12...By: Bill Osterndorf
The end of the federal fiscal year is rapidly approaching. As of September 26, Congress has yet to pass a budget for the 2024 federal fiscal year that starts October 1, 2023. If Congress fails to find a way to fund the...By: Bill Osterndorf
The State of New York’s pay transparency law took effect on September 17, 2023. The law requires employers to provide information on compensation in all job announcements. The State of New York follows numerous other states and...By: Joanna Colosimo
On August 24, 2023, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted an “Approved with Change” action for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) revisions...By: Mitchell Chamberlin
Today, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published its latest Corporate Scheduling Announcement List(CSAL), which includes 973 unique companies and is comprised of 922Supply and Service...By: Joanna Colosimo, Bill Osterndorf, Amanda Bowman
On August 24, 2023, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted an “Approved with Change” action for OFCCP’s proposed revisions to its ...By: Zach Olsen
Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC)’s request was approvedto renew a slightly streamlined version of its EEO-1 data collection form. This was expected, as EEOC (like other government agencies),...By: Bre Timko, Dave Schmidt, Grace Boudjalis
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) settled its first lawsuit concerning artificial intelligence (AI) bias in hiring with iTutorGroup Inc. (now known as Fullmind), an organization that...By: Grace Boudjalis and Sarah Layman
On August 9, 2023, Kalpana Kotagal was sworn in as a Commissioner for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).President Biden nominated Kotagalfor her current post in April 2022; she was ...By: Dave Schmidt and Sarah Layman
Federal focus on broadly understanding, regulating, and balancing the benefits and risks related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow; increasingly, there is activity on this front related to...By: Evan Szarenski
On Thursday, August 3, 2023,OFCCP releasedthe long-expected Pre-enforcement Notice and Conciliation Procedures Final Rule(commonly referred to as the “PDN Rule”).The document is scheduled to be published in the Federal RegisterBy: Dave Schmidt and Bre Timko
In late May, the New York City (NYC or the City) Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) held multiple roundtables about Local Law 144 for which began being enforced on July 5, 2023. On June 30th, the DCWP...By: Haley Fisk and Evan Szarenski
TheBiden administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has released the Spring 2023 regulatory agenda. The agenda lists regulatory actions that the administration intends to undertake in the...By Workforce Equity, DCI Consulting Group
DCI Consulting Group (DCI) is monitoring reactions, answering questions, and releasing content related to the June 2023 Supreme Court ruling on with affirmative action in higher education1. The Court's...
By: Don Lustenberger
At DCI, we’ve been tracking increased attention on the topic of pay compression. So, let’s talk about what it is, how it comes about, how it might pose a risk for your organization, and how to potentially remedy it.
What is...
By: DCI Consulting
The deadline to certify compliance with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) affirmative action program requirements at OFCCP’s Contractor Portal was June 29, 2023. OFCCP commended the federal contractors...
By: DCI Consulting
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a notice indicating that the tentative opening of the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will be delayed to the Fall of 2023 .The delay is...
By: Bill Osterndorf
On May 17, 2023, the Illinois legislature passed a bill requiring various pay scale disclosures in job postings. This bill, House Bill (HB) 3129, amends the Illinois Equal Pay Act. This bill was signed into law by Illinois...
By: Mitchell Chamberlin and Amanda Bowman
On Monday, June 5, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL). According to OFCCP’s announcement, this CSAL includes 250...
By: Joanna Colosimo
The Supreme Court is expected to provide a final decision in the cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) by the Students for Fair Admissions in the next month. The casescenter around a long-held practice...
By: Dave Schmidt and Bre Timko
On May 18, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a press release in which they link to new guidance they have provided on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in selection procedures....
By: Keli Wilson and Jon Geier
This is the final part of our blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
Throughout this series, DCI has shared many benefits to workplace equity gained by sustaining or improving a candidate’s or...
By: Joanna Colosimo
This article was originally published in WorldatWork's #evolve Magazine and has been modified for the DCI blog.
A growing number of organizations have experienced pressure (often from corporate and activist shareholders) to...
By: Joanna Colosimo and Zach Olsen
On April 17, 2023, aggregated company race/ethnicity and sex counts by EEO-1 category as a part of the EEO-1 consolidated reports from 2016-2020 were released for federal contractors and subcontractors that did not...
By: Bre Timko and Dave Schmidt
Federal leaders, including Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Burrows, U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
By: Chad Peddie and Jon Geier
This is part 7 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
This blog series has focused on how an employer can create psychological safety for its workforce. In recent blogs, we...
By: Sheryl Harmening
On April 14, 2023, California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) updated itsFrequently Asked Questions (FAQs) with additional information on upcoming pay reporting requirements. According to CRD, employers can now request an ...
By: Kermit Olson
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in employment decision making is receiving ever increasing attention from governmental agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Office of Federal Contract...
By: Dave Schmidt and Bre Timko
On April 6, 2023, the New York City (NYC) Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued the final set of rules for enforcing Local Law 144, regulating the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs)...
By: Chad Peddie and Bobbie Burton
This is part 6 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
In a world increasingly demanding of employee attention and time, the challenge for organizations to effectively engage...
By: Dave Schmidt and Bre Timko
If you have been following the state of New York City’s Local Law 144, which is intended to regulate the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) used to make or substantially assist hiring decisions, you may...
By: Brittany Dian-Hansell
On Friday, March 31, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) updated the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark to 5.4 percent, slightly down from 5.5 percent in...
By: Joanna Colosimo
Update as of March 30, 2023:
On March 30, Jenny Yang sent a personal message to the OFCCP stakeholder community discussing her new role and reflecting on her time at OFCCP.
March 29, 2023:
As reported yesterday in various...
By: Sheryl Harmening
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is proposing changes to the agency’s Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability form. The current version of the form is set to expire on May 31, 2023. The proposed changes...
By: Bobbie Burton and Keli Wilson
This is part 5 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
Implementing organizational policies and practices that increase employee perceptions of fairness and justice is...
By: Evan Szarenski
On March 9, President Biden released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which will cover October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. In the days that followed, the U.S. Department of Labor has issued several documents that...
By: Terri Cordia and Bill Osterndorf
On March 14, 2023, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) launched its Mega Construction Project (Megaproject) Program. The Megaproject Program is another step towards OFCCP’s efforts to...
By: Cassie Alfheim
As predicted in DCI’s earlier blog post, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced today that the agency will open its Contractor Portal on March 31, 2023. This is the second year of OFCCP’s requirement...
By: Keli Wilson and Jasmine Beecham
This is part 4 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
Key takeaways associated with establishing psychological safety, as learned in the previous installment of this...
By: Chad Peddie and Tyler Wurtz
This is part 3 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
In the previous installment in this series, we discussed how employees, in general, evaluate the risks and potential...
By: Bre Timko and Dave Schmidt
On January 31, 2023, theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had a hearing, entitled “Navigating Employment Discrimination in AI and Automated Systems: A New Civil Rights Frontier”. This hearing, which...
By: Marcelle Clavette and Jasmine Beecham
This is part 2 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
An employee’s perspective on workplace culture plays a particularly important role in self-identification...
By: Sheryl Harmening
On January 26, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)announcedits proposal for updating the standardsused for collecting race and ethnicity data.OMBmost recently updated these standards in 1997 through Standard ...
By: Sheryl Harmening
Update as of February 14, 2023:
On February 14, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) extended the deadline to confirm objections to the release of EEO-1 reports to March 3, 2023, from February 17,...
By: Joanna Colosimo, Cassie Alfheim, and Leilani Seged
DCI has confirmed with the National Office of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that,in accordance with the published Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL)...
By: Tyler Wurtz and Marcelle Clavette
This is part 1 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
Employers are increasingly taking a holistic approach in studying workforce equity, with a goal ofidentifying...
Update: On June 30, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) delayed the filing period for the 2022 EEO-1 data collection once again. According to its website, the filing period will begin in the fall of 2023. Please see our blog on...
By: Kristen Pryor and Joanna Colosimo
The proposed changes discussed below focus on OFCCP asking for additional information at the outset of a compliance review, ostensibly to provide clarity to contractors about what is expected but also creating a...
By Amanda Bowman and Benjamin Kerner
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its first Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for federal fiscal year 2023 today, January 20, 2023. The list includes Supply and...
By: Zach Olsen and Lisa Harpe
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) proposed scheduling letter makes substantive additions and revisions with regard to reporting compensation for the desk audit submission. In this blog we will...
By: Dave Schmidt and Amanda Allen
In late December 2022, the New York City (NYC) Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued an updated set of proposed clarification rules for Local Law 144 (regulating the use of automated employment...
By: Bill Osterndorf
There are manyproposed revisionsin the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) scheduling letter and itemized listing that was released on November 20, 2022. One of the proposed revisions to the scheduling...
By: Bill Osterndorf and Evan Szarenski
On January 6, 2023, the State of Illinois published final administrative rules regarding the Equal Pay Registration Certificate that employers must secure. The administrative rules had been published in ...
