Today the 2018 Annual Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark was updated on the VEVRAA Benchmark Database. Effective on March 31, 2018, the new benchmark will be 6.4%.
National and state information has also...
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March 30, 2018
The Institute for Workplace Equality (IWE) held a Compliance Conference in San Francisco last month in which representatives participated from the EEOC and OFCCP. Victoria Lipnic, Acting EEOC Chair, addressed attendees on the #MeToo movement...
On March 19, 2018, President Trump Nominated Sharon Gustafson as General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for a term of four years. For twenty-six years, Ms. Gustafson has practiced before the EEOC and the federal...
On February 27, 2018, OFCCP Director Ondray Harris issued OFCCP Directive 2018-01. The directive is intended to provide guidance to OFCCP staff on the compliance process and procedure regarding the use of Predetermination Notices (PDN) and ensure...
Over the past few decades, pay equity has become a hot topic and priority for social justice advocates, enforcement agencies, and savvy employers. Typically the pay gap is defined as the difference in men's and women's median earnings, but for...
March 01, 2018
A recent study by Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) provides an illuminating example of the nuance required in interpreting gender wage gap numbers. In collaboration with researchers from Stanford and University of Chicago, Uber released the...
February 23, 2018
In recent weeks, guidance was released by the EEOC’s Joint Reporting Committee detailing that employers with employees who “regularly report” to client sites must now report those employees on an EEO-1 report with the address of the client site, as...
February 16, 2018
On February 1, 2018, a federal court judge issued a split decision in Texas v. the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding enforcement of the EEOC’s 2012 guidance on background checks. The guidance warns that employers’ use of...
February 14, 2018
On Monday February 11th, the Trump Administration released its proposed FY 2019 budget. In addition, OFCCP released its FY 2019 Congressional Budget Justification (CBJ) document. It is important to note that the proposed budget for OFCCP at $91...
February 13, 2018
According to the proposed FY 2019 U.S. government budget, the proposed merger between OFCCP and EEOC is officially dead. The FY 2019 Budget proposes the following:
- Improving organization efficiency and effectiveness by modernizing the agency’s...
February 11, 2018
Recently, in some OFCCP audits and private litigation, the Agency and plaintiffs’ statistical experts have applied a Human Capital Theory (Becker, 1975) approach when evaluating compensation disparities between different subgroups. According to...
February 10, 2018
On January 10th, the California Pay Equity Task Force approved the substance of several draft documents that provide guidance to employers on complying with the California Equal Pay Act (CEPA) in light of amendments enacted over the past several...
