DCI Consulting Blog

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThere were two major calls on July 20, 2010 for the Senate to pass the PFA, one by President Obama, and one by Vice President Biden. The President called it a “common-sense bill” to...

At a White House Middle Class Task Force forum today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced new initiatives aimed at addressing pay equity and wage discrimination.

Of particular interest to Federal contractors was the announcement that...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of PsychologyThe meeting, held on March 11, 2010 was chaired by Senator Harkin, with testimony from Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, an original sponsor of the bill in the House, EEOC Acting Chairman...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of PsychologyAccording to a BNA report dated March 26, 2010, congress is likely to turn its attention to three important piece of EEO legislation. For BNA subscribers, the report is available here....

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of PsychologyThe case is Schuler v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, decided on February 16, 2010. The case may be viewed online at http://op.bna.com/dlrcases.nsf/r?Open=kmgn-82qpgx. Schuler alleged he was...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report charging the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division with mishandling nine of the ten cases brought by a team of undercover agents posed as aggrieved workers. The report was entitled...

The EEOC announced an arbitrator’s ruling that the EEOC’s own practice of giving time off to commission employees who worked extra hours was insufficient for certain investigators and mediators. The arbitrator ruled that most other investigators,...

The Department of Labor announced that IFCO Systems has paid $1.6 million in back wages to 1,751 employees in 17 states who allegedly were not properly paid for overtime hours worked as required by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL also...

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...

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 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) posted a notice regarding the application of the new Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. The EEOC’s notice advises potential charging parties that if they are aware of unexplained differences...

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...