DCI Consulting Blog

In a live web chat on Thursday May 7, 2009, Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis rolled out the agencies FY 2010 budget. During the presentation, the Secretary specifically addressed the budget for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance...

David Cohen, President of DCI Consulting Group, and Eric Dunleavy, Ph.D., Senior Consultant at DCI, published an article in the March 2009 Quarterly of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington DC (PTC/MW). The article, entitled ...

The EEOC has announced that United Airlines will pay $850,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging the airline’s overtime policy violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. The lawsuit alleged that United’s policy of denying the opportunity to work...

The EEOC has announced that it published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register to implement the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The proposed rule would implement GINA’s strict restrictions on employers...

The EEOC has announced that the Big Vanilla Athletic Club in Baltimore will pay $161,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the EEOC. The lawsuit alleged that the club sexually harassed several female employees at the company’s Pasadena...

The EEOC has announced that a federal court ruled that its lawsuit on behalf of a disabled sales manager employee could not be blocked. The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Autozone, one of the nation’s largest retailers of...

The EEOC has announced that Union Pacific Railroad will pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by EEOC alleging the company refused to hire a female applicant to a system material foreman position even though she had more seniority than the other...

The EEOC has announced that Fitzhaugh Farm in Maryland will pay $180,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit in which it had alleged the Farm sexually harassed a female farmhand. The lawsuit also claimed the Farm terminated the...

The EEOC has announced that Shopper’s Vineyard, a wine and liquor store in Clifton, New Jersey will pay $60,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC. The EEOC alleged the store laid off the only African American front-line...

The EEOC has announced that YRC Inc., the largest over-the-road trucking company in the U.S., and the EEOC announced an agreement providing for an expanded recruitment program that is expected to increase the diversity of YRC’s truck driving and...

The EEOC has announced that Advance Stores Company, Inc., d/b/a as Advance Auto Parts, will pay $50,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by EEOC in which the agency alleged the company refused to hire an applicant because of his...

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that it will make available to employers nationwide a free database of 1,921 job candidates with disabilities seeking employment in a wide variety of fields. The Workforce Recruitment Program for College...