DCI Consulting Blog

By: Evan Szarenski 

On March 9, President Biden released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which will cover October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. In the days that followed, the U.S. Department of Labor has issued several documents that...

By: Terri Cordia and Bill Osterndorf 

On March 14, 2023, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) launched its Mega Construction Project (Megaproject) Program. The Megaproject Program is another step towards OFCCP’s efforts to...

By: Cassie Alfheim 

As predicted in DCI’s earlier blog post, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced today that the agency will open its Contractor Portal on March 31, 2023. This is the second year of OFCCP’s requirement...

By: Cassie Alfheim 

Update as of March 20, 2023:

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced the deadline for federal contractors and subcontractors to certify compliance with affirmative action regulations is June 29, 2023. This...

By: Keli Wilson and Jasmine Beecham  

This is part 4 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.

Key takeaways associated with establishing psychological safety, as learned in the previous installment of this...

By: Chad Peddie and Tyler Wurtz 

This is part 3 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.

In the previous installment in this series, we discussed how employees, in general, evaluate the risks and potential...

By: Bre Timko and Dave Schmidt 

On January 31, 2023, theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had a hearing, entitled “Navigating Employment Discrimination in AI and Automated Systems: A New Civil Rights Frontier”. This hearing, which...

By: Marcelle Clavette and Jasmine Beecham 

This is part 2 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.

An employee’s perspective on workplace culture plays a particularly important role in self-identification...

By: Sheryl Harmening

On January 26, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)announcedits proposal for updating the standardsused for collecting race and ethnicity data.OMBmost recently updated these standards in 1997 through Standard ...

By: Tyler Wurtz 

In June 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) announced a proposalto enhance Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) reporting for investment companies and advisors. The proposed rule would amend rules under the...

By: Sheryl Harmening 

Update as of February 14, 2023:

On February 14, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) extended the deadline to confirm objections to the release of EEO-1 reports to March 3, 2023, from February 17,...

By: Bill Osterndorf 

On Friday, January 20, 2023, the State of California published updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding the pay data reporting that employers must do. These FAQs were meant to respond to questions surrounding changes...