DCI Consulting Blog

The Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) of the U.S. Department of Labor has issued the final rule to revise reporting requirements for federal contractors and subcontractors under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Act of 1974, as...

Recent lawsuits filed by the EEOC related to transgender discrimination illustrate what is a growing focus of the government and enforcement agencies. Two recent cases in particular serve as the tipping point for collective efforts to extend...

Statistical Analysis Part III: Compensation Analysis

DCI will be hosting the next installment in its Webinar Wednesday series this upcoming Wednesday, October 15th, at 2:00PM EST. In the last segment of the statistical analysis series, we will...

Similar to previous years, the end of the Federal fiscal year was busy for the OFCCP. The OFCCP settled six cases in September for which a press release was issued, showing clear motivation to settle up cases before the end of the year. This is a...

The new OFCCP scheduling letter and itemized listing have officially been released at reginfo.gov, and are effective immediately (starting October 1, 2014).  As previously mentioned by DCI, there were substantial changes to the scheduling letter...

Statistical Analysis Part II: Personnel Activity Analyses

DCI is hosting the next installment in its Webinar Wednesday series tomorrow, October 1st, at 2:00pm EST. An overview of conventional methods for detecting adverse impact in personnel...

A settlement amount of $1.5 million accompanying the conciliation agreement between OFCCP and Westat, Inc. certainly should have captured the attention of the federal contractor community. However, if you missed the news release with a quote from...

The third blog in our steering series highlights a recent OFCCP settlement related to steering at Central Parking Systems of Louisiana, Inc.  On September 4, 2014, OFCCP issued a press release indicating that Central Parking has agreed to pay...

On September 5, 2014, Judge D.J. O’Toole of the District Court of Massachusetts delivered the latest ruling on alternatives to reduce adverse impact after a defendant has successfully proven the challenged test is job related and consistent with...

In 2011, the OFCCP proposed major changes to the current scheduling letter and itemized listing. After three years, the OFCCP has received approval from OMB to make some of the changes that were requested. These changes (especially the change to...

On September 12^th, a General Electric subsidiary in Ohio agreed to pay $537,000 to settle a sex discrimination allegation with OFCCP. The agency alleged that the company used a set of employment tests that produced adverse impact against female...

The Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service proposed changes to the VETS-100 report were approved and will be published on the Federal Register on September 25^th.  This new rule will apply to VETS-100A (now VETS-4212) filed in...