DCI Consulting Blog

by David Morgan & Eric Dunleavy, DCI Consulting Group

The 24th Annual Conference for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) took place April 2-4, 2009 in New Orleans, LA. DCI staff were among those who attended and...

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that it will make available to employers nationwide a free database of 1,921 job candidates with disabilities seeking employment in a wide variety of fields. The Workforce Recruitment Program for College...

Former DOL Secretary Elaine Chao has returned to The Heritage Foundation as a Distinguished Fellow, according to a foundation press release. She will concentrate on international policy issues as well as labor policy.

DOL Secretary Hilda Solis has issued a news release on a COBRA subsidy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). ARRA provides a 65 percent tax subsidy for the cost of health benefits for the unemployed for up to nine months,...

by Eric Dunleavy, Sul-Kee Kim, David Morgan & Keli Wilson, DCI Consulting Group

DCI staff attended the Washington Metro Industry Liaison Group (WMILG) meeting at U.S. Foodservice’s Manassas facility on February 19, 2009. The meeting was organized...

The Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), a nonprofit employer association based in Washington DC, was quoted in a special article published in BNA Daily Labor Report® (subscription required) featuring the outlook for the OFCCP in 2009. A summary of...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that President Obama appointed Stuart Ishimaru as Acting Chairman and Christine Griffin as Acting Vice Chair of the commission. Ishimaru succeeds Naomi C. Earp, whose term as...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Ronald S. Cooper, General Counsel of the EEOC, will return to private practice. He will rejoin the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP in its Washington DC office. Deputy General...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that it will begin releasing monthly data on the employment and unemployment of persons with disabilities. The report will be based on information collected in the Current Population Survey, which provides...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics published a comprehensive article on state labor legislation enacted in 2008 in the January 2009 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. The article is here.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) has re-introduced a bill (“Family-Friendly Workplace Act,” H.R. 933) that would give private sector employees the option of taking paid time off as compensation for overtime hours worked, or “comp time.” The bill...

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney has introduced the proposed Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act (H.R. 824) that would allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children’s and...