DCI Consulting Blog

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...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsA recent 2007 Video Resume Survey released by career publisher Vault Inc. found that 89 percent of the employers surveyed said they would watch a video resume if it were submitted to them....

Many federal contractors are concerned about how they will meet their compliance requirements once America’s Job Bank phases-out at the end of June. We have been closely monitoring the latest developments on this phase-out in the following report.

The Acquisition Reform Working Group, which represents various industry groups, has expressed opposition to Section 569 of the Senate-passed Emergency Supplemental (H.R. 1591). Under this provision, employers that violate immigration laws would be...

The DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy published an announcement in the Federal Register on April 9 that extends the period for submission of nominations for the Secretary of Labor’s New Freedom Initiative Award.The notice states that...

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsSystemic discrimination and testing are key priorities for federal agencies enforcing federal EEO law, according to government attorneys speaking at the American Bar Association’s National...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a settlement of an age discrimination lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company brought on behalf of 137 present and former employees who were allegedly denied benefits under exit incentive...