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by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn December 3, 2007, the EEOC issued an extensive fact sheet on the application of federal anti-discrimination laws to employer tests and other selection procedures to screen applicants for...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe EEOC has announced that a federal court in Rockford, Illinois, has issued an order largely denying an employer’s motion to compel discovery regarding medical and psychological records,...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsSince October 1, 2007, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been reviewing OFCCP’s proposed rule entitled “Government Contractors, Affirmative Action Requirements, Maintaining and...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn October 25, 2007, the EEOC announced the settlement of a discrimination lawsuit filed against Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co. on behalf of African American workers who were...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn October 11, 2007, EEOC announced that it had formed an Asian American and Pacific Islander Work Group that will examine this community’s concerns about federal sector employment, special...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsVETS:On October 3, 2007, the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment Training Service (VETS) published a notice in the Federal Register (71 FR 56103-56104) soliciting comments on the...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsPilgrim’s Pride Settles Hiring Discrimination Case for $1 Million On October 3, 2007, OFCCP announced that Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., headquartered in Pittsburg, Texas, had entered into two consent...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn October 1, 2007, EEOC announced that United Healthcare of Florida would pay $1.8 million to settle a same-sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit charging the male former regional vice...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn October 5, 2007, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that Sidley Austin, one of the nation’s largest law firms, will pay $27.5 million to 32 former partners to...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn October 16, 2007, EEOC filed a complaint and a consent decree (EEOC v. B & H Foto and Electronics Corp., No. 07-CV-9241) in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn September 26, 2007, Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), presented the agency’s Freedom to Compete Award to four employers and one non-profit...

The OFCCP has just announced that beginning October 1, 2007, regional offices may schedule compliance evaluations of non-construction Federal contractors from the first FY 2008 scheduling list.

The new scheduling list includes about 2,500...