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A Brief Summary of the EEOC’s Pay Equity Addition to the EEO-1 Report

February 01, 2016

DCI reported on Friday the release of the EEOC’s revision to the Employer Information Report (EEO-1), which was officially published in the Federal Register today, February 1, 2016. The EEO-1 report will continue to collect the race/ethnicity and...

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Obama to Announce Proposed Pay Equity Reporting Requirement

January 29, 2016

Today, on the anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, President Obama will announce that the EEOC is proposing a pay equity report that will be added to the existing EEO-1 report. This proposed revision would require all employers with 100...

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What Does a Statistically Significant Standard Deviation Mean?

January 20, 2016

In this multi-part blog series, we will cover various topics relevant to the Federal Contractor community as it relates to statistical analyses. We begin our series with a topic that is often misunderstood by both practitioners and enforcement...

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New Year’s Resolutions: What to Expect in 2016 with OFCCP?

January 18, 2016

As contractors prepare for 2016, we want to share some reminders on what to be prepared for in the New Year with OFCCP and EEO compliance. 

1.)    First full year of 503/VEVRAA analytics under Subpart C

Contractors were required to come into...

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The OFCCP Institute submits comments on proposed changes to Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing

January 14, 2016

The OFCCP Institute (“The Institute”) recently submitted comments in response to OFCCP’s Proposed Renewal of Information Collection Requirements, published on October 29, 2015, which describes proposed changes to the Scheduling Letter and Itemized...

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OFCCP Releases New FAQs on VEVRAA Infographic

December 14, 2015

The OFCCP recently posted two new FAQs confirming that the interpretation, not definition, of “protected veteran” has been broadened to be consistent with the definition used by the Department of Veterans Affairs. As presented in a previous blog,...

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DCI Releases White Paper on Outreach and Recruitment for IwDs and Veterans

December 09, 2015

Nearly two full years have passed since the release of the revised Section 503 and VEVRAA which introduced a number of new requirements for federal contractors involving affirmative action for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities...

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Will the Real Protected Veteran Please Stand Up?

November 24, 2015

In light of some recent buzz centered on OFCCP’s infographic for determining protected veteran status, we wanted to clarify our lastpost and confirm that OFCCP did not change the definition of any veteran categories. As OFCCP and the Solicitor’s...

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Is OFCCP’s Equal Pay Report Doomed?

November 23, 2015

In the summer of 2014, OFCCP released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for collecting compensation data through an Equal Pay Report (EPR) as part of their initiative to combat pay discrimination. The EPR was slated to be final in November of...

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Workplace Advancement Act – Redundant to the Equal Pay Act?

November 09, 2015

On October 22, 2015, Senior Senator Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) introduced S.2200, the Workplace Advancement Act, in the United States Senate. The stated purpose of the bill is to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to strengthen equal pay...

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Governor Jerry Brown Signs the California Fair Pay Act (CFPA) Into Law

November 03, 2015

The CFPA was signed into law on October 6, 2015 and may be read in its entirety here. It is a relatively short statute and an easy read. The CFPA is an amendment to a prior statute written in 1949 and has many of the key features of the Federal...

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California Fair Pay Act – Validating Factors Used in Compensation

November 02, 2015

The new California Fair Pay Act (CFPA) is summarized in depth in a previous blog in this series. The CFPA includes strict stipulations for employing “[a] bona fide factor other than sex, such as education, training, or experience” to explain wage...

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