The 26th Annual Conference for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) was held April 14-16, 2011 in Chicago, IL. Attendees and presenters from a variety of industries and backgrounds took part in the event. As is typically...
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by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyIn a lawsuit filed on April 19, 2011, United Space Alliance (USA) sued the DOL and OFCCP challenging a Final DOL Order for USA to produce documents or face suspension of current and...
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyAs reported by BNA, Philadelphia PA Mayor Michael A. Nutter signed the so-called “Ban the Box” bill on April 13, 2011 prohibiting both public and private employers from divulging their...
April 20, 2011
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyAs reported in an alert on March 30, 2011, two of our DCI colleagues (David Morgan & Eileen Curtayne) attended oral arguments held a day earlier Wal Mart v. Dukes. I will assume the...
March 30, 2011
by David Morgan and Eileen Curtayne, Ph.D., DCI Consulting GroupDCI staff visited the U.S Supreme Court (USSC) on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. At approximately 5:40 a.m., there were already well over 90 people in line hoping for a ticket to hear the...
March 29, 2011
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOrdinarily, we are not interested in misfiled cases, but this one involves a claim misfiled with the OFCCP that could have been dropped because of the Title VII statute of limitations....
March 29, 2011
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
The first case is Matusick v. Erie County Water Authority (ECWA) decided in front of Judge Richard J. Arcara in the District Court of the Western District of New York [2011 U.S. Dist....
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
The EEOC published the regulations for the ADA in light of the ADAAA on March 25, 2011 with an effective date of two months thereafter. Along with the new regulations, the EEOC...
March 21, 2011
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyCharlie Sheen’s “adventures” have dominated the popular press and Internet blogs in recent weeks. We do not normally feature such stories in this space. However, last week, his lawyers...
March 21, 2011
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe alleged facts in Kurtts v. Chiropractic Strategies Group [2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22144, 3/4/11] are that Crystal Kurtts, a receptionist at a chiropractic clinic in Alabama complained...
March 04, 2011
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyAs noted in several recent DCI Blogspots, the OFCCP is proposing to rescind the Standards written in 2006 for evaluating systematic discrimination in compensation cases. As noted in...
January 18, 2011
The case is Randall v. Rolls Royce, decided on March 12, 2010. The facts of this case are hardly extraordinary. Two named plaintiffs at Rolls Royce sued for systemic sex discrimination under Title VII and unequal pay for equal work under the Equal...
