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The settlement was reported on April 25, 2013 in a DOL News Brief. For undisclosed reasons, the specifics of the settlement have, as of this writing, not appeared in the OFCCP news site (see http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/). However, other sources,...

The settlement was reported on the OFCCP website on April 25, 2013. According to the release, the hiring process favored women for entry-level attendants because of the perception that women are better than men at customer service. This settlement...

Bertucci provides flood control and restoration services and has received more than 80 million in federal contracts related disaster recovery efforts, most notably, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the British Petroleum oil spill in...

To claim protected class membership under the ADA, the individual must prove (a) disability within the meaning of the law (an impairment that significantly restricts a major life activity) and, (b) qualification (ability to perform the essential job...

The case is EEOC v. Bass Pro Outdoor World (BPOW) decided on March 18, 2013 by District Court Judge Keith B. Ellison of the District of Texas, Houston Division [2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36711]. As far as pattern or practice cases go, this one is not...

Given the recent wave of OFCCP courtesy letters sent to federal contractors this month, we thought a short review of the process in moving from courtesy letter to scheduling letter would be of interest to readers of this blog. The OFCCP utilizes the...

OFCCP’s recent webinars on Directive 307 stated that compensation investigations will focus on individual race/ethnicity differences. If that is the case, a number of analytic questions require clarification.

OFCCP’s Directive 307 outlines policies for evaluating compensation data that depart in three primary ways from guidance presented in the rescinded Compensation Standards:

• No requirement to construct and analyze compensation data by Similarly...

The case is Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which the Supreme Court granted certiorari on March 25, 2013 [2013 U.S. LEXIS 2504]. The case involves an amendment to the Michigan State Constitution that would prohibit all sex and...

The case is EEOC v. Grane Healthcare, decided on 3/25/13 by Judge Kim R. Gibson of the Western District of Pennsylvania [2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35869]. The case itself is a class action suit by the EEOC alleging that two healthcare providers (Grane...

The case is EEOC v. Kaplan Higher Learning decided on January 28 by Judge Patricia A. Gaughan of the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division (2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11722). The EEOC claimed that Kaplan’s use of credit...

The report was released on March 14, 2012 and may be viewed at https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-51.html. The report is based on statistics between 2008 and 2010, which may be viewed at ...