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Nearly one year has passed since the signing of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (EO 13673) by President Obama on July 24, 2014. On May 28, 2015, a news release announced the publication of the proposed guidance issued by the...

There have been a number of blog reports since the EEOC v. ANF ruling suggesting that this case has implications for the ADA. I do believe there are general implications for the rules on religious accommodation related to the ADA. This includes,...

The ruling, which was 8 to 1, with Justice Thomas dissenting (in part), was decided on 6/1/15 [2015 U.S. LEXIS 3718]. If you read it too quickly, you might think it’s your typical religious accommodation case --- it’s not. And forgive me at the...

For many contractors, the self-identification requirements for protected veterans have been confusing since the revision of VEVRAA in September 2013, and especially since the VETS reporting requirements changed in September 2014. Let’s recap what...

Steering: Full Speed Ahead with the OFCCP 

DCI will be hosting the next installment in its Webinar Wednesday series on Wednesday June 10, 2015 from 2-2:30 PM ET.

This webinar segment will leave attendees with best practice processes to adopt in...

The 30^th Annual Conference for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) was held April 22-25, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. This conference brings together members of the I/O community, both practitioners and academics, to discuss...

After release of the new VETS-4212 report requirements, federal contractors were instructed through OFCCP FAQs that they were not required to request individual protected veteran categories in their post-offer self-ID invitations. The OFCCP...

On a news release dated April 30, 2015, OFCCP announced that Comcast Corporation’s Everett, WA location entered into a conciliation agreement to resolve allegations of sex and race discrimination. OFCCP’s review determined that Comcast steered 96...

There appears to still be confusion around what contractors are required to do with the VEVRAA annual hiring benchmark. Specifically, what should a contractor compare to the hiring benchmark?

1. The contractor’s employment of protected veterans
2. The...

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...