DCI Consulting Blog

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyAs noted in several recent DCI Blogspots, the OFCCP is proposing to rescind the Standards written in 2006 for evaluating systematic discrimination in compensation cases. As noted in...

by Fred Satterwhite, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting GroupOFCCP submitted its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for "Non Discrimination In Compensation: Compensation Data Collection Tool" to the Office of Management and Budget's...

by Keli Wilson and Marcelle Clavette, DCI Consulting GroupOut with the old “Active Case Management” (ACM) and in with the new “Active Case Enforcement” (ACE) imposed by Patricia A. Shiu, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs...

by Jana Moberg, DCI Consulting GroupAs most of you are aware, Item 11 of OFCCP’s scheduling letter requests that compensation data be submitted with the desk audit submission. Item 11 reads: “Please provide annualized compensation data (wages,...

OFCCP announced on February 3 that the agency had reached a settlement agreement with Green Bay Dressed Beef LLC that will pay $1.65 million in back wages, interest, and benefits to 970 women who were rejected for general laborer positions at the...

As you probably are aware, OFCCP has released a notice to rescind its Interpretive Standards for Systemic Compensation Discrimination and Voluntary Guidelines. In support of this notice, OFCCP has stated that most contractors are not using the...

Thomas M. Dowd joins OFCCP as Director of the Division of Program Operations where he will oversee the Functional Affirmative Action Program Unit and DPO’s three branches: Enforcement and Appeals, Field Liaison Operations and Technical Assistance,...

The case is Randall v. Rolls Royce, decided on March 12, 2010. The facts of this case are hardly extraordinary. Two named plaintiffs at Rolls Royce sued for systemic sex discrimination under Title VII and unequal pay for equal work under the Equal...

by Fred Satterwhite, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting GroupToday's Federal Register includes OFCCP's notice proposing to rescind two guidance documents originally published in 2006 that addressed compensation discrimination, commonly referred to as...

On December 21, 2010, the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) concluded its review of OFCCP's "Notice of Proposed Rescission, Interpreting Nondiscrimination Requirements of Executive Order...

OFCCP and other U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) agencies published their Fall 2010 regulatory agendas on December 20, 2010. The agenda is published twice a year and includes planned rulemaking actions for the agency for the next 6-12 months.

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OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu officially discontinued the agency's Active Case Management (ACM) process on December 2, 2010 by rescinding Directive Number 285 as recommended by the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force in July, 2010. The Task...