The settlement was reported on the OFCCP website on April 25, 2013. According to the release, the hiring process favored women for entry-level attendants because of the perception that women are better than men at customer service. This settlement...
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April 09, 2013
OFCCP’s recent webinars on Directive 307 stated that compensation investigations will focus on individual race/ethnicity differences. If that is the case, a number of analytic questions require clarification.
- Is the comparator group “White” or is...
April 09, 2013
OFCCP’s Directive 307 outlines policies for evaluating compensation data that depart in three primary ways from guidance presented in the rescinded Compensation Standards:
- No requirement to construct and analyze compensation data by Similarly...
March 14, 2013
by Keli Wilson, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting Group OFCCP officially rescinded the 2006 compensation standards and guidelines and released Directive 307 to replace previous guidance. Directive 307 describes the OFCCP procedures for compliance...
February 14, 2013
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyWe’ve reported on the past attempts to enact the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) in at leaset a dozen Alerts. By design, the PFA would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by, among...
On Nov. 15, 2012, OFCCP’s Senior Program Advisor Pam Coukos and Mid-Atlantic Regional Director Michele Hodge presented at the Washington Metro Industry Liaison Group (WMILG) meeting. Baltimore District Director Tom Wells and Arlington Area Director...
November 20, 2012
The study was published by Andreas Liebbrant and John A. List on August 23, 2012 and is entitled Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence From A Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment [NBER working paper #18511]. The first author graciously sent...
September 24, 2012
The 2012 Industry Liaison Group (ILG) National Conference was held August 27-31, 2012 in Waikoloa, HI. DCI staff attended the 30th annual conference, and presented in numerous workshop sessions on such topic areas as systemic discrimination...
June 05, 2012
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
The case is EEOC v. Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J. decided on 5/17/12 (see http://www.nylj.com/nylawyer/adgifs/decisions/052112buchwald.pdf). The case began in 2007 when a female...
The Annual Southwest and Rocky Mountain (SWARM) Region Industry Liaison Group (ILG)Conference was held April 10 – 13, 2012 in San Antonio, TX. This annual conference brings together members of the federal contracting community to discuss affirmative...
March 30, 2012
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyThe case is King v. Acosta Sales & Marketing, decided by the 7th Circuit on March 13, 2012 [2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 5156]. The plaintiff, Susan King, lost on summary judgment at the...
