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Last spring, DCI surveyed Federal contractors to assess participation rates regarding the revised Section 503 regulations (2015 results). The majority of contractors have likely reached a year of full compliance and implementation under the revised...

Since the release of OFCCP’s FY 2017 budget justification on February 8, 2016, the federal contractor community has been buzzing, as OFCCP’s requests shed light on the agency’s enforcement priorities for the near future. Given the current political...

The settlement, announced on February 22, 2016, calls for, among other things, payment of $86,000 to 74 black applicants from the period between March 2007 and February 2008, as well as the promise to offer jobs to seven of the class members as they...

In a recent alert, I summarized the results of Chavez v. Credit Nation Auto Sales, a Title VII case decided by the 11^th Circuit on January 14, 2016 [2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 598].  I also noted a prior 11^th Circuit 14^th Amendment ruling in Glenn v. Bumbry

In our previous blog on the topic of statistical significance, we discussed how to interpret the meaning of "statistically significant." In this blog, we want to expand on the topic by discussing the difference between statistical and practical...

The Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing, reviewed and approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), set the framework for what data are required to submit in a compliance review. Specifically, item 18 in the Itemized Listing requires...

Given the high prevalence of data security breaches and identity theft today, organizational leadership should be making the protection of their consumers’ and their employees’ confidential information a high priority. It is no surprise that federal...

DCI reported on Friday the release of the EEOC’s revision to the Employer Information Report (EEO-1), which was officially published in the Federal Register today, February 1, 2016. The EEO-1 report will continue to collect the race/ethnicity and...

Today, on the anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, President Obama will announce that the EEOC is proposing a pay equity report that will be added to the existing EEO-1 report. This proposed revision would require all employers with 100...

The case is Cannon v. Jacobs Field Services (JFS) decided on January 13, 2016 by the 5^th Circuit Court [2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 531]. The facts of the cases were that JFS made Michael Cannon, a mechanical engineer with 20 years experience, a...

The case is Chavez v. Credit Nation Auto Sales decided by the 11^th Circuit on January 14, 2016 [2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 598].  This is not the first time the 11^th Circuit has ruled in favor of a terminated female transgender employee.  The 11^th Circuit...

In this multi-part blog series, we will cover various topics relevant to the Federal Contractor community as it relates to statistical analyses. We begin our series with a topic that is often misunderstood by both practitioners and enforcement...