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DCI Releases 2012 Training Schedule

January 19, 2012

DCI Consulting is excited to release its 2012 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) Training program. This program is catered toward HR practitioners, compliance analysts, and lawyers in both internal and external counsel...

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OFCCP Settles Race Bias Hiring Case With Jacintoport International

January 19, 2012

JacintoPort, a subsidiary of Seaboard Corp., has $1.2+ million in federal contracts to store and transport cargo with the Defense Commissary Agency. Interestingly, the allegations against JacintoPort amount to discrimination against white and black...

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WINDS OF CHANGE: AN UPDATE ON THE NEW CSAL LETTER

January 19, 2012

by Eric Dunleavy, Keli Wilson and Joanna Colosimo, DCI Consulting Group

During the week of December 19th, the OFCCP issued Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) to the federal contractor community. The letters were sent to those federal...

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OFCCP Submits Second Notice to Rescind Compensation Standards and Guidelines to OMB for Review

January 18, 2012

by Fred Satterwhite, Principal Consultant, DCI Consulting GroupOFCCP submitted a "Notice of Proposed Rescission, Interpreting Nondiscrimination Requirements of Executive Order 11246 With Respect to Systemic Compensation Discrimination and Voluntary...

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Bank of America (BOA) V. Solis

January 11, 2012

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyBoA Suffers a Loss that Likely Benefits All Federal Contractors in the FutureBoA issued a 4th Amendment challenge to an OFCCP request for information for an on-site review under the...

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FY2012 CORPORATE SCHEDULING ANNOUNCEMENT LETTERS (CSAL) RELEASED

January 03, 2012

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released the Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter (CSAL) for its scheduling of the FY2012 compliance evaluations. The letters were sent out on or about December 20, 2011. Historically,...

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OFCCP FILES ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST BRUNSWICK CORPORATION

December 08, 2011

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe complaint was filed on 12/1/11 with the OFCCP’s Office of Administrative Law Judges (OFCCP v. Lund Boat Co. and Brunswick Corp.
Case Number: 2012-OFC-00002; see ...

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MORE ON OFCCP'S PROPOSAL TO REVISE REGULATIONS ON SEC 503 OF THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973

December 08, 2011

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe revision is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on 12/9/11. At issue are regulations relating to affirmative action provisions, and specifies actions contractors and...

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OFCCP ISSUES NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING ON DISABILITY REGULATIONS

December 08, 2011

OFCCP Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination Obligations of Contractors and Subcontractors Regarding Individuals with DisabilitiesBy David Cohen, President, DCI Consulting Group On December 8th, 2011 OFCCP...

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OFCCP FILES ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS

November 30, 2011

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe complaint was filed on 11/29/11 with the OFCCP’s Office of Administrative Law Judges (see http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ofccp/OFCCP20111648.htm). It alleges that Cargill...

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Actions and Resources for the Recruitment and Retention of Veterans

November 30, 2011

The government is responding to the return of our military service members with various initiatives to increase veterans’ employment opportunities in the civilian workforce. One initiative that will directly affect the federal contractor community...

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OFCCP NAMES NEW DIRECTOR OF THE MIDWEST REGION

November 18, 2011

DCI has learned that Bradley A. Anderson will become the Director of OFCCP’s Midwest Regional Office. Director Anderson has been with the agency for 16 years and was most recently the director of the Charlotte District Office in North Carolina. The...

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