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    SUPREME COURT NARROWS DEFINITION OF “SUPERVISOR” IN VANCE V. BALL STATE RACIAL HARASSMENT CASE

    The ruling was handed down on 6/24/13 [2013 U.S. LEXIS 4703]. The issue of whether an alleged harasser is a supervisor or co-worker is important...

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    When Good Faith is Not Good Enough – Lessons Leanred From OFCCP Audits

    In Fiscal Year 2012, 30% of all OFCCP compliance evaluations closed with a technical conciliation agreement. Compare this number to FY 2004, where 5%...

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    Supreme Court Punts in Long-Awaited Ruling in Fisher V. University of Texas

    The ruling was handed down on 6/24/13 [2013 U.S. LEXIS 4701]. In a 7-1 vote (with Justice Kagan not participating), the Court decided that the...

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    Outreach to Veterans II: Become A Champion

    In our first Outreach to Veterans blog, we focused on developing a veteran recruitment strategy that considered resources available to you and how to...

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    Implications of Veteran Preference in Hiring

    In an effort to strengthen regulatory requirements related to veteran affirmative action and nondiscrimination, the OFCCP released in April 2011 a...

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    Could you send us job descriptions for all 1,000 of your jobs by next week?

    Because DCI has noticed an increase in the number of OFCCP requests for copies of job descriptions, we thought this might be a good time to discuss...

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    Equal Pay Enforcement: What Do The Laws Say?

    Art recently described a pay equity ruling that was declined for review by the Supreme Court. At the heart of the ruling was the difference between...

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    Exploring The Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures

    Many readers are familiar with the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP), which describe the standards by which EEO regulatory...

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    SIXTH CIRCUIT LEANS ON DUKES V. WAL-MART TO DENY CLASS CERTIFICATION

    The case is Davis v. Cintas, decided by the 6th Circuit on 5/30/13 [2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 10856]. This case is very much like Dukes v. Wal-Mart [131...

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    Supreme Court Passes on Alleged Conflict Between Title VII and The Equal Pay Act (EPA)

    In Moten v. Broward County, Irma Moten, a black female forensic technician with the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office sued for pay...

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    An Imperfect Analysis: Promotions and Terminations

    As a part of a complete proactive affirmative action program, it is a best practice to conduct disparity (a.k.a. adverse impact) analyses for...

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    Following Up on the NYC Firefighter Case

    Last week, Art Gutman wrote an interesting blog on US & Vulcan v. NYC, which is a NYC firefighter case involving both pattern or practice and...

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