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The EEOC announced that a building material supplier will pay $495,000 to five former workers to settle a race bias lawsuit. The EEOC alleged in its lawsuit that the company discriminated against African American employees by subjecting them to...

The EEOC announced that a healthcare company will pay up to $450,000 to a class of Hispanic employees at its nursing homes and assisted living facilities who were subject to harassment, different terms and conditions of employment, promotion,...

by Sul-Kee Kim, David Morgan & Keli Wilson, DCI Consulting Group

DCI attended the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington’s (PTC/MW) monthly Luncheon Meeting on April 15, 2009. Rich Tonowski, Ph.D., Chief Psychologist at EEOC, gave a...

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...

David Cohen, President of DCI Consulting Group, and Eric Dunleavy, Ph.D., Senior Consultant at DCI, published an article in the March 2009 Quarterly of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington DC (PTC/MW). The article, entitled ...

The EEOC has announced that it published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register to implement the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The proposed rule would implement GINA’s strict restrictions on employers...

The EEOC has announced that Union Pacific Railroad will pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by EEOC alleging the company refused to hire a female applicant to a system material foreman position even though she had more seniority than the other...

The EEOC has announced that YRC Inc., the largest over-the-road trucking company in the U.S., and the EEOC announced an agreement providing for an expanded recruitment program that is expected to increase the diversity of YRC’s truck driving and...

The EEOC has announced that Advance Stores Company, Inc., d/b/a as Advance Auto Parts, will pay $50,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by EEOC in which the agency alleged the company refused to hire an applicant because of his...

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) has announced that Pitt Ohio, an interstate trucking firm, had agreed to pay $2.43 million to a class of women to settle a class action lawsuit. The EEOC alleged the company denied a class of...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that two movie production companies will pay $75,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit that alleged the companies refused to hire a pregnant job applicant for a position...