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The 30^th Annual Conference for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) was held April 22-25, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. This conference brings together members of the I/O community, both practitioners and academics, to discuss...

According to a recent BNA report, the New York City Council, controlled by the Democratic Party, voted 47 to 3 to make credit history checks illegal under the city’s Human Rights Law. Council leaders noted that consumer credit information is often...

OFCCP updated the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Benchmark Database on its website, based on 2014 end-of-year data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Now, the Annual National Benchmark is 7 percent – a slight drop...

The 30th annual conference of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) will take place in Philadelphia, PA April 23rd-25th. Once again DCI staff are well represented across a number of interesting sessions related to EEO/AA...

The comment period for the proposed sex discrimination rule ends today, April 14, 2015. The original March 31^st deadline was extended, due to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Young v. United Parcel Service. On March 25^th, the U.S. Supreme...

On April 8, 2015, updates to Executive Order (EO) 11246 per EO 13672 took effect, prohibiting discrimination by all covered federal contractors and subcontractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. To better inform the federal...

On March 18, 2015, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a news release providing the most up-to-date facts and figures on national veteran employment. Using 2014 employment data from the Current...

In accordance with the revised Section 503 regulations, Federal contractors are now collecting voluntary self-identifications of disability status from employees and applicants and including these figures in their affirmative action plans. This...

As other blogs have noted, the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the long-awaited revisions to the Sex Discrimination Guidelines (RIN 1250-AA05) included some very interesting ideas. Some of those relate to the role of performance measurement...

OFCCP’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) addressing Discrimination on the Basis of Sex is lacking clarity on several points and seems to contradict itself as well. This blog post focuses on the proposed changes to part 60-20.2 General...

As proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Sex Discrimination Guidelines, sections 60-20.2(b)(7) and 60-20.2(b)(8) of the revised regulations will seem to limit the federal contractor’s ability to recruit and engage potential...

DCI has noted a recent trend among some compliance officers that are alleging that a 1:1 applicant to hire ratio is a “per se” violation of the regulations. If this was true, virtually all contractors would be in violation of the regulations. It is...