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The Department of Labor announced that IFCO Systems has paid $1.6 million in back wages to 1,751 employees in 17 states who allegedly were not properly paid for overtime hours worked as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL also...

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Florida) has introduced a bill (Border Control and Accountability Act, H.R. 1668) that would suspend or debar federal contractors that employ illegal aliens. The bill would also prohibit the Department of Homeland Security...

The EEOC announced that a healthcare company will pay up to $450,000 to a class of Hispanic employees at its nursing homes and assisted living facilities who were subject to harassment, different terms and conditions of employment, promotion,...

The EEOC announced that a federal district court entered a judgment for over $267,000 and injunctive relief in a discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Sunfire Glass, Inc. The EEOC alleged the company’s owner subjected a class of female...

EEOC announced that Nordstrom will pay $292,500 to 10 former employees to settle a lawsuit that alleged a department store manager harassed Hispanic and black employees based on their national origin, race, and color and retaliated against those who...

The EEOC issued a technical assistance document on best practices to avoid discrimination against workers with caregiving responsibilities. The report was released at a public meeting to discuss the importance of policies that protect caregivers in...

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...

by Sul-Kee Kim, David Morgan & Keli Wilson, DCI Consulting Group

DCI attended the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington’s (PTC/MW) monthly Luncheon Meeting on April 15, 2009. Rich Tonowski, Ph.D., Chief Psychologist at EEOC, gave a...

by David Morgan & Eric Dunleavy, DCI Consulting Group

The 24th Annual Conference for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) took place April 2-4, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. DCI staff were among those who attended and...

by Fred Satterwhite, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting Group

The Office of Labor-Management Standards issued a final rule on March 30, 2009, to rescind the regulations at 29 CFR Part 470, which had implemented the now-revoked Executive Order...

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...