DCI Consulting Blog

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...

The Department of Labor Wage and Division has announced that it recouped back wages totaling $185,287,827 for 228,645 workers in FY 2008.

The Department of Labor announced on January 9, 2009 that Sandia Corporation, doing business as Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, has agreed to pay over $2 million in overtime back wages to 2,657 research employees after a DOL investigation...

On November 19, 2008, a bill entitled “Stop the Greed on Wall Street Act” (S. 3693) was introduced in the Senate. The bill would cap executive compensation for employees of companies receiving funds from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief...

On October 30, 2008, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced that GlobalCynex, Inc., an information technology company headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, will pay $1.68 million in back wages to 343 foreign workers with H-1B...

On November 3, 2008, the EEOC announced that First Wireless Group, a New York-based company that refurbishes cell phones, will pay $435,000 to settle a wage discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the EEOC. The commission alleged that...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately suffer from serious labor market problems despite gains in average educational...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsA new study (“H-1B Benefit Fraud & Compliance Assessment”) released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services of a random sample of cases of H-1B petitions...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory Affairs

• House Passes Paycheck Fairness Act; President Bush Opposes: The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338). The White House, however, issued a...

The House Education and Labor Committee approved the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1338) on July 24, 2008 by a 26-17 vote. The bill would amend the Equal Pay Act to enhance remedies for sex-based pay disparities for women and men performing the same...