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OFCCP TO TARGET APPROXIMATELY 125 FAAPS FOR REVIEW

July 18, 2007

By Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs

A senior OFCCP official has confirmed the agency has begun scheduling a new round of functional affirmative action program (FAAP) compliance evaluations. OFCCP will use a random method to...

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OFCCP Sends Final Rule Implementing “Jobs for Veterans” for Review

May 30, 2007

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsUPDATE: OMB completed its review of the rule on August 1, 2007. The final rule was published in the Federal Register on August 8, 2007.The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is currently...

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EEOC and DOL Release Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda

May 02, 2007

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThis is the time of year when federal agencies release their semi-annual regulatory agendas, as required by Executive Order 11286 and the Regulatory Flexibility Act. The agenda lists all...

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Revisiting A Study on The Effectiveness of Affirmative Action Programs

March 27, 2007

by Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsLast week I attended the American Bar Association’s National Conference on Equal Employment Law, which is a highly popular annual meeting of lawyers representing management, plaintiffs,...

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4,500 Sites Listed With OFCCP’s New Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters

March 17, 2007

On March 13, 2007 OFCCP mailed Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters to CEOs along with its second FY 2007 scheduling list identifying approximately 4,500 facilities. OFCCP’s initial scheduling list was released in November 2006.

Who’s on the...

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New Research Offers Insights Into Why People Oppose Affirmative Action

March 06, 2007

New research offers insights into why some people oppose affirmative action, as well as perspectives into how such policies may be more effectively framed.

A recent article on the Stanford Graduate School of Business website says that researchers...

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OFCCP INTERNET APPLICANT RULE WEBINAR RESOURCE MATERIALS

January 10, 2007

Last December, DCI’s David Cohen participated in a webinar sponsored by Monster.com where he discussed how the new Internet applicant rule applies in the context of an OFCCP audit. His presentation, “Are You Ready for Your OFCCP Audit?”, and an...

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OFCCP RELEASES SEMIANNUAL REGULATORY AGENDA

January 04, 2007

The Department of Labor published its semiannual regulatory agenda in the Federal Register (71 Fed. Reg. 73540) on December 11, 2006. OFCCP released the following regulatory items of interest to corporate affirmative action and EEO practitioners....

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DCI President Featured In HR News Article On New OFCCP Internet Applicant Faqs

November 21, 2006

As reviewed in detail here last week, OFCCP recently published new FAQs to provide additional guidance regarding the Internet Applicant final rule that became effective earlier this year. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) interviewed...

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DCI Decodes OFCCP’s New Internet Applicant FAQs

November 16, 2006

Hopefully by now everyone has had a chance to read through OFCCP’s 12 recently released FAQs on the Internet Applicant rule.

While most of these FAQs are fairly straightforward, a few may require some additional “decoding.” Following my...

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Michigan Voters Approve Ban on Affirmative Action

November 09, 2006

Michigan voters have approved by a wide margin a controversial ballot initiative to outlaw racial, gender and ethnicity preferences in public college admissions, government hiring and government contracting. With 99 percent of the precincts...

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Study Finds Affirmative Action Programs Trump Diversity Training

October 12, 2006

Dramatic findings of a new study published in the American Sociological Review go against the popular claim that anti-discrimination regulation is no longer needed because diversity programs have gained a life of their own. The study provides hard...

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