DCI Consulting Blog

A recent study by Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) provides an illuminating example of the nuance required in interpreting gender wage gap numbers. In collaboration with researchers from Stanford and University of Chicago, Uber released the...

On February 1, 2018, a federal court judge issued a split decision in Texas v. the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regarding enforcement of the EEOC’s 2012 guidance on background checks. The guidance warns that employers’ use of...

On Monday February 11^th, the Trump Administration released its proposed FY 2019 budget. In addition, OFCCP released its FY 2019 Congressional Budget Justification (CBJ) document. It is important to note that the proposed budget for OFCCP at $91...

According to the proposed FY 2019 U.S. government budget, the proposed merger between OFCCP and EEOC is officially dead. The FY 2019 Budget proposes the following:

• Improving organization efficiency and effectiveness by modernizing the agency’s...

On January 10th, the California Pay Equity Task Force approved the substance of several draft documents that provide guidance to employers on complying with the California Equal Pay Act (CEPA) in light of amendments enacted over the past several...

Pay equity continues to be a topic to discuss! For example, numerous states have recently issued new pay equity laws or strengthened their existing ones (for example, California, Maryland, New York, and Oregon, to name a few). This emphasis is also...

The Department of Labor has released its plan for Fiscal Year 2018, including a look at where the OFCCP intends to go over the coming year.

The report highlights OFCCP’s switch from active case management to active case enforcement, and a broader...

OFCCP has released 1,000 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) on February 1^st, according to an update and Frequently Asked Questions on the OFCCP website. The letters were issued by national office and signed by new Director, Ondray...

Bank of America (BoA) sent a memo recently to its employees stating that all employees will be prohibited from asking job candidates about their prior salary starting March 2018. Bank of America deemed this policy as another step toward bridging the...

Today, January 26th, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its FY 2017 Agency Financial Report. This report provides fiscal data and summary performance results for each fiscal year (October 1 through September 30), and provides an overview of...

Now that the new year is in full swing, we hope that your company is planning for, or already working on, your 2017 EEO-1 report filing. As previously reported, EEO-1 reports will now be filed in quarter 1 of each year, but the reports are based on...

The DCI team has released several communications on the recent Diversity in the Technology Sector report. The final recommendation made by the GAO is that “the Director of OFCCP should evaluate the Functional Affirmative Action Program to assess its...