By Patricia A. Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsLaw professor Jeffrey Lax has written a thought provoking article in the New York Law Journal and published on law.com that poses an interesting question for employers. If minority and women...
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March 14, 2007
February 07, 2007
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the certification of a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, which alleged that as many as 1.5 million current and former female employees were discriminated against in pay and promotions (Dukes v....
February 06, 2007
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the final approval of a settlement of discrimination claims against Quietflex Manufacturing Company, L.P., which produces flexible air conditioning ducts and component products. U.S....
January 10, 2007
David Cohen, President, DCI Consulting Group, Inc., offers another unique “inside the Beltway” perspective on important EEO developments:A “must-watch” case for employers now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court asks how long an employee who is the...
January 02, 2007
OFCCP announced that it recovered a record $51,525,235 for 15,273 American workers who had been subjected to unlawful employment discrimination. Eighty-eight percent was collected in cases of systemic discrimination. The $51.5 million reflects a 14...
November 15, 2006
David Cohen, President, DCI Consulting Group, Inc., offers another unique “inside the Beltway” perspective on important OFCCP developments:National Office to Vet Systemic Compensation Investigations Post Desk AuditMany DCI clients are wondering what...
On October 5, an Illinois federal judge approved a $5 million preliminary consent decree to resolve two consolidated class action employment discrimination lawsuits against the Woodward Governor Co., a global provider of engine systems and parts (...
September 05, 2006
(UPDATE: The EO Survey will be eliminated effective September 8, 2006- click here for details.)
Federal contractors will soon learn the official fate of OFCCP’s controversial Equal Opportunity (EO) Survey.
DCI has learned that the Office of...
OFCCP’s new systemic compensation discrimination standards and voluntary self-evaluation guidelines will dramatically impact how federal contractors conduct pay equity analyses. The purpose of DCI’s short mini-survey was to benchmark with...
July 27, 2006
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear an important case involving how far back in time may be considered in an employee’s lawsuit alleging discrimination in pay under Title VII (Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., U.S. No. 05-1074,...
DCI, in conjunction with FortneyScott and ORC Worldwide, will be presenting a comprehensive seminar for contractors on incorporating the final OFCCP standards and guidelines when evaluating their compensation practices for systemic discrimination....
Shortly after the final interpretive standards and voluntary guidelines for compliance with Executive Order 11246 with respect to systemic compensation discrimination were released on June 16, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)...
