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The ruling was handed down on 4/29/15 [2015 U.S. Lexis 2984].  I previously reported on the oral arguments in this case in an alert dated 1/19/15. As reported in that Alert, a woman, Brooke Petkas, and a class of female applicants for non-office jobs...

Ordinarily, a subordinate would be nuts to harass a supervisor, particularly if the supervisor has the authority to affect the subordinate’s terms and conditions of employment. There are several such cases. For example, in the most recent of these...

According to a recent BNA report, the New York City Council, controlled by the Democratic Party, voted 47 to 3 to make credit history checks illegal under the city’s Human Rights Law. Council leaders noted that consumer credit information is often...

This issue is beginning to give me some heartburn.  I’ve had dozens of inquiries this past year about the new “OFCCP’s New Regulation to Improve Job Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities (see ...

OFCCP updated the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Benchmark Database on its website, based on 2014 end-of-year data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Now, the Annual National Benchmark is 7 percent – a slight drop...

The 30th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) will take place in Philadelphia, PA April 23rd-25th. Once again DCI staff are well represented across a number of interesting sessions related to EEO/AA...

The comment period for the proposed sex discrimination rule ends today, April 14, 2015. The original March 31^st deadline was extended, due to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Young v. United Parcel Service. On March 25^th, the U.S. Supreme...

The facts of the case are that Peggy Young, a part-time truck driver for UPS, became pregnant and was restricted by her doctor from lifting more than 20 pounds (the standard UPS requirement being 70 pounds). UPS offered Young unpaid pregnancy leave...

On April 8, 2015, updates to Executive Order (EO) 11246 per EO 13672 took effect, prohibiting discrimination by all covered federal contractors and subcontractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. To better inform the federal...

On March 18, 2015, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a news release providing the most up-to-date facts and figures on national veteran employment. Using 2014 employment data from the Current...

In accordance with the revised Section 503 regulations, Federal contractors are now collecting voluntary self-identifications of disability status from employees and applicants and including these figures in their affirmative action plans. This...

As outlined in 41 CFR 60-3, contractors are required to analyze personnel activity to determine if there are barriers to equal employment for protected classes. One method of determining whether these barriers exist for applicants is to evaluate...