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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...

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...

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...

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...

On Monday February 11^th, 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...

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...

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...

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...

Pay equity continues to be a topic to discuss! For example, numerous states have recently issued new pay equity laws or strengthened their existing ones (for example, California, Maryland, New York, and Oregon, to name a few). This emphasis is also...

The Department of Labor has released its plan for Fiscal Year 2018, including a look at where the OFCCP intends to go over the coming year.

The report highlights OFCCP’s switch from active case management to active case enforcement, and a broader...

OFCCP has released 1,000 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) on February 1^st, according to an update and Frequently Asked Questions on the OFCCP website. The letters were issued by national office and signed by new Director, Ondray...

Bank of America (BoA) sent a memo recently to its employees stating that all employees will be prohibited from asking job candidates about their prior salary starting March 2018. Bank of America deemed this policy as another step toward bridging the...