DCI Consulting Blog

By: Bill Osterndorf

UPDATE 3: On January 16, 2025, Massachusetts opened the portal meant to collect the EEO-1 reports of covered employers. Reports must be submitted by February 3, 2025.

UPDATE 2: On January 14, 2025, Massachusetts released a notice...

By: Chad Peddie

On July 25, 2024, the Civil Rights Audit Standards (the Standards) were published by an independent committee led by PolicyLink, a leading national research and action institute dedicated to racial and economic equity and CapEQ, an...

By: Don Lustenberger and Lisa Harpe

Our summer blog series contrasting “expert” versus “robot” approaches to pay equity continues this week as we discuss what happens after compensation data have been analyzed: investigating the results of the...

By: Evan Szarenski and Jon Geier

There has been a lot written about the recent Supreme Court decision reversing the 1984 decision in Chevron (Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984)) and the Chevron...

By: Lisa Harpe and Don Lustenberger

In our second and previous installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches to conducting a pay-equity study, we described how the more traditional, consultant-led approaches...

By: Amanda Bowman and Dylan Tomsey

On July 26th, OFCCP issued Directive 2024-01,which outlines new procedures for expedited conciliation, with the option to enter into an Expedited Resolution Conciliation Agreement (ERCA). Through the expedited...

By: Lisa Harpe and Don Lustenberger

In our first installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches to conducting a pay-equity study, we described how the more traditional, consultant-led approaches (i.e., expert)...

By: Bill Osterndorf

On July 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released a revised version of form CC-257 that would collect data on construction employees working for federal construction...

By: Lily Kerr

In recent years, there have been several state-specific pay reporting requirements taking effect after the recission of the nationwide EEO-1 Component 2 pay data collection. One such reporting requirement has been the bi-annual...

By: Don Lustenberger and Lisa Harpe

Series Introduction 

Earlier this year DCI experts and co-authors of this post, Lisa Harpe and Don Lustenberger, hosted a pay-equity webinar on the topic of “expert vs. robot.” They contrasted the more...

By: Fred Satterwhite

While much of the country was busy enjoying an extended Independence Day weekend, the Biden administration released its Spring 2024 Regulatory Agenda on Friday, July 5th.The semi-annual agenda includes regulatory actions the...

By: Evan Szarenski

On June 12, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a notice in the Federal Register announcing its review of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) and asking for public comment.

All federal statistical...