DCI Consulting Blog

By: Bill Osterndorf

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) continues to focus on the affirmative action initiatives of construction companies. The agency’s latest action in this regard was the release ...

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. If HB 3129 is signed into law by Illinois...

By: Bill Osterndorf

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published a list of 12 major construction projects where the agency expects to conduct compliance reviews. This list comes on the heels of OFCCP’s launch of its Mega...

By: Bill Osterndorf 

On Friday, January 20, 2023, the State of California published updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the pay data reporting that employers must do. These FAQs were meant to respond to questions surrounding changes...

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 ...

By: Bill Osterndorf, Kate Hayek, and Alaya Collins

On November 9, 2022, theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) gave notice that it is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a three-year extension of the EEO-1

By: Bill Osterndorf

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has extended the deadline for organizations to make objections to the release of their EEO-1 type 2 reports. The agency extended the deadline from September 19, 2022, to...

By: Bill Osterndorf

With the likely passage of SB-1162, new California pay reporting requirements are coming. SB-1162 is a final version of a law that would add new provisions to the existing requirements California has on reporting pay data. 

The...

By: Bill Osterndorf

On August 22, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced a new version of the notification site used to inform OFCCP of construction contracts and subcontracts.  

In the past, OFCCP has asked...

By Bill Osterndorf, Evan Szarenski

On August 19, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice in the Federal Register that allows federal contractors and subcontractors to object to the release of their EEO-1...

By Bill Osterndorf

On July 28, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) shared a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies), which studied EEOC’s collection of pay data from...