by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyMichael Briscoe was one of the black applicants for promotion to lieutenant in the Supreme Court’s ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano (2009). On remand from the Supreme Court, District Court...
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May 17, 2010
May 17, 2010
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyIn NAACP v. North Hudson Regional Fire & Rescue (2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40067), the NAACP challenged a residency requirement for firefighter candidates excluding applicants living outside...
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyWal-Mart agreed to a settlement of up to 86 million dollars for 232,000 employees alleging nonpayment for vacation or personal leave in accordance with California state law after they...
May 17, 2010
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOn May 7 2010, the 11th Circuit affirmed a district court judgment of $630,000 for 14 women (12 nurses, 1 doctor & 1 classification officer) on grounds of third-party sexual harassment....
May 17, 2010
DCI President David Cohen delivered the first-ever keynote address at Radford University's Graduate College Commencement and Hooding Ceremony on May 7, 2010. Cohen was chosen as the inaugural speaker based on his success in the short period of time...
May 06, 2010
by Fred Satterwhite, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting Group
(UPDATE: Final rule published on May 20, 2010)
On May 4, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) completed its review of the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) final rule prescribing the...
by Keli Parody Wilson, Consultant, DCI Consulting GroupOn February 22, 2010, DCI Consulting posted a blog highlighting the agency's Functional Affirmative Action Plan (FAAP) process trends. In summary, the blog focused on the prolonged approval...
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOn April 26, 2010, a panel of eleven 9th Circuit Court judges ruled 6-5 that a class approximated at 500,000 female Wal-Mart employees could proceed with a class action suit in...
by David Cohen, President, DCI Consulting GroupAs described in an earlier DCI client update, the Department of Labor released a database summarizing recent OFCCP enforcement activity. One interesting section of that database lists individual...
April 20, 2010
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe first ruling is Haqq v. Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, decided on March 23, 2010 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Haqq, a Muslim woman...
April 20, 2010
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyMy thanks to Dr. Lance Seberhagen (CEO & Director of Seberhagen & Associates) for forwarding the following information.As reported in the BullsEye Newsletter in February 2010, there are...
