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Major District Court Ruling in Firefighter Promotion Exams - Part 1

February 22, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Bazile v. City of Houston, decided by District Court in the Southern District of Texas decided on 2/6/12. (see 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14712). This is a very complex case that...

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Employee Terminated in a RIF Cannot Prove Pretext in Age Discrimination Case

February 22, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Lefevers v. GAF Fiberglas Corporation, handed down on 1/27/12 (see 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 1477), in which the 6th Circuit affirmed the district court’s ruling of summary...

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WOMAN WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER LOSES ADA CASE

February 08, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is Insalaco v. Anne Arundel County Public Schools, decided by District Court of Maryland on 1/26/12. (see 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9110). Jennifer Insalaco, a special education...

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OFCCP EXTENDS COMMENT PERIOD ON NPRM FOR SECTION 503

February 07, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe OFCCP has posted the following supplementary information related to its December 9, 2011 related to comments on its NPRM on Section 503.On December 9, 2011, OFCCP published a...

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OFCCP Rejection For Extension of Public Comment Period on Proposed Changes to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act Draws Congressional Response

January 31, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOn Wednesday, January 25th all of the employer associations and other organizations that requested an extension to the February 7th public comment deadline in response to proposed...

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Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School V. EEOC Completing the Story

January 30, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThis case was featured in an alert on 10/18/11 featuring the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on 10/15/11. The question was whether Cheryl Perich met the definition of “minister.” If so,...

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CONGRESSMAN MEEKS CITES ROMNEY IN PROPOSED BILL ON DISCLOSURE OF MINORITIES AND WOMEN IN VARIOUS PAY BRACKETS

January 30, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyOn 1/18/12, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) introduced H.R. 3791 requiring public companies to disclose their pay brackets and how many women and minorities fall within them. This bill would...

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DCI Releases 2012 Training Schedule

January 19, 2012

DCI Consulting is excited to release its 2012 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) Training program. This program is catered toward HR practitioners, compliance analysts, and lawyers in both internal and external counsel...

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OFCCP Settles Race Bias Hiring Case With Jacintoport International

January 19, 2012

JacintoPort, a subsidiary of Seaboard Corp., has $1.2+ million in federal contracts to store and transport cargo with the Defense Commissary Agency. Interestingly, the allegations against JacintoPort amount to discrimination against white and black...

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EEOC Settles with Pepsi on Alleged Discrimination

January 19, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe EEOC announced on 1/11/12 that Pepsi Beverages has agreed to a 1.3 million settlement to head off litigation (see http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/1-11-12a.cfm). Most of the...

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WINDS OF CHANGE: AN UPDATE ON THE NEW CSAL LETTER

January 19, 2012

by Eric Dunleavy, Keli Wilson and Joanna Colosimo, DCI Consulting Group

During the week of December 19th, the OFCCP issued Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) to the federal contractor community. The letters were sent to those federal...

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OFCCP Submits Second Notice to Rescind Compensation Standards and Guidelines to OMB for Review

January 18, 2012

by Fred Satterwhite, Principal Consultant, DCI Consulting GroupOFCCP submitted a "Notice of Proposed Rescission, Interpreting Nondiscrimination Requirements of Executive Order 11246 With Respect to Systemic Compensation Discrimination and Voluntary...

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