DCI Consulting Blog

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...

Today, January 26th, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its FY 2017 Agency Financial Report. This report provides fiscal data and summary performance results for each fiscal year (October 1 through September 30), and provides an overview of...

Now that the new year is in full swing, we hope that your company is planning for, or already working on, your 2017 EEO-1 report filing. As previously reported, EEO-1 reports will now be filed in quarter 1 of each year, but the reports are based on...

The DCI team has released several communications on the recent Diversity in the Technology Sector report. The final recommendation made by the GAO is that “the Director of OFCCP should evaluate the Functional Affirmative Action Program to assess its...

In its recent report on Diversity in the Technology Sector, the GAO made a recommendation that OFCCP take steps toward requiring contractors to set separate placement goals for individual race/ethnicity groups in their AAPs, rather than setting a...

Director of EEO Compliance, Joanna Colosimo, and Principal Consultant Mike Aamodt discuss GAO's new report on Diversity in the Technology Center. DCI wrote a post digesting initial thoughts on the report on December 1, 2017. To read the full...

Ondray T. Harris, former deputy chief of employment litigation at the Justice Department (DOJ) during the George W. Bush administration, is now leading the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) effective Dec. 10, a DOL spokesman...