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by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThis is the time of year when federal agencies release their semi-annual regulatory agendas, as required by Executive Order 11286 and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The agenda lists all...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe House overwhelmingly passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 493) on April 25 by a 420-3 vote. The bill was introduced January 16, 2007 by Rep. Louise Slaughter...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 24 by Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Deborah Pryce (R-OH), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe Committee on Education and Labor Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing on April 24, 2007 on the proposed “Paycheck Fairness Act” (H.R. 1338), which was introduced...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe EEOC has announced settlement of a class race and national origin discrimination lawsuit brought against Flushing Manor Geriatric Center, Inc., a New York geriatric center, for $900,000....

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by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Executive Director, The Center for Corporate EqualityThe Center for Corporate Equality has announced it will release the results of its EEO-1 Resurvey benchmarking mini-survey within the next few weeks. Survey participants...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsDavid Cohen, President of DCI Consulting Group Inc., and Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs attended a hearing on April 12, 2007 conducted by the Senate Committee on...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President, Regulatory AffairsEEOC Chair Naomi Earp wrote an open letter to Don Imus, Bernard McGuirk, MSNBC and CBS in which she publicly called on the media and entertainment industry to make greater efforts to combat...

Some employers have expressed some confusion about whether the EEOC requires employers to resurvey their workforces for EEO-1 reporting purposes, particularly after the 2007 EEO-1 filing. DCI has confirmed directly with the EEOC that there is no...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe EEOC announced that it had settled a lawsuit against Jeff Wyler Eastgate, Inc. and 10 additional Jeff Wyler-owned auto dealerships alleging they discriminated against a class of...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn April 12, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a high profile employment discrimination case (BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) on...