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SUMMARY JUDGMENT OVERTURNED IN RACE & SEX CLAIM FOR BLACK FEMALE REPLACED BY HISPANIC FEMALE

March 03, 2014

The case is Shazor v. Professional Transit Management decided by the 6th Circuit on 2/19/14 [2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 2943]. The facts of the case are that Professional Transit Management (PTM), a provider of management services to transit authorities...

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Federal Magistrate Orders Voluntary Remand In ARB Ruling Against Frito-Lay

March 03, 2014

The ruling, which was handed down on 2/11/14 by US Magistrate Judge David L. Horan in and for the District Court of the Northern District of Texas.

The facts are that OFCCP initiated a compliance review of Frito-Lay’s Dallas Baked facility on July...

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EEOC V. FREEMAN ROUND 3: EEOC Appeals Summary Judgment

March 03, 2014

This is our third Alert on EEOC v. Freeman, in which the EEOC has charged that Freeman’s use of background checks and criminal records adversely impacted blacks, Hispanics, and males. The EEOC also charged Freeman with a pattern or practice of...

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OFCCP’S Version of Item 11 Compensation

February 11, 2014

Since OFCCP’s compensation Directive 307, federal contractors are experiencing more intense scrutiny of their compensation systems during OFCCP compliance reviews. A recent trend among compliance officers across regions is to ask contractors to...

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4 Months Later... So What Exactly is a Hiring Benchmark?

February 11, 2014
A little over four months ago, we asked the question, “ Exactly what is a hiring benchmark”? In that blog, we reviewed the VEVRAA regulatory language, the preamble to the regulation, and the OFCCP FAQ explaining the difference between the benchmark...
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New OFCCP Regulations Going Live: Are You Ready?

February 11, 2014

As previously featured on this blog, the Department of Labor’s OFCCP published the revised Section 503 and VEVRAA regulations on September 24, 2013. The effective date for all contractors to comply with subparts A, B, D, and E is 180 days from the...

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OFCCP COURTESY NOTIFICATIONS RELEASE

February 04, 2014

DCI Consulting Group has been informed by a reliable source that the OFCCP courtesy notification (previously, the Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter (CSAL)) will be released this week. This letter serves as an advanced courtesy to federal...

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COMING SOON: COURTESY NOTIFICATIONS

January 29, 2014
The OFCCP provides an advanced courtesy notification to those federal contractors and subcontractors that have an identified establishment(s) for a possible compliance evaluation. This advanced notice comes in the form of a courtesy letter,...
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The New and Improved Disability Self-Identification Form

January 29, 2014
Last week, we announced that the disability self-identification form had been approved by OMB, but was not yet available on the OFCCP website. This week, the form is up on the OFCCP website.

Now that everyone has had a chance to get a look at the...

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Two-Month Reminder: Getting Compliant With The New OFCCP Regulations

January 28, 2014

The new OFCCP regulations addressing affirmative action obligations for protected veterans (VEVRAA) and individuals with disabilities (Section 503) were published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2013 and will become effective in two months,...

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OFCCP’S REGULATORY AGENDA: WHAT WILL 2014 BRING?

January 28, 2014

[Editor's note: This blog entry was originally posted on December 17, 2013.]

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) semiannual regulatory agenda was released on November 26, 2013. With the year 2013 coming to an end, let’s take a look at what the OFCCP...

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The Long-Awaited Disability Self-Identification Form is Here!!

January 23, 2014

Contractors have been eagerly waiting for the final disability self-identification form, and now the wait is over! The form was approved by OMB yesterday, and is located here. As of this writing, the form does not yet appear on the OFCCP website.

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