The letter was written on July 25, 2013 by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, and is joined by attorneys general from Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina and Utah The letter was reprinted in the West...
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August 14, 2013
The 31st Annual National Conference for the Industry Liaison Group (ILG) was held July 30 – August 2, 2013 in Indianapolis, IN. This annual conference brings together members of the federal contracting community to discuss affirmative action and...
August 07, 2013
The ruling, by ALJ Kenneth A. Krantz was handed down on 8/5/13. What’s interesting in this ruling is that OFCCP, for all intents and purposes, believed that VF was showing preference for Asians versus all other protected groups. The problem is that...
July 23, 2013
In this installment of our UGESP series, we address an aspect of the validation process that presents significant EEO enforcement risk if overlooked: selection procedure implementation.
The purpose of a validation study is to collect evidence that...
July 19, 2013
In a press release dated July 17, 2013, the OFCCP announced that Tufts Associated Health Plans has agreed to a $372,739 settlement related to charges of race-based discrimination in termination and retaliation.
I recently described the prongs of...
July 09, 2013
In our last set of blog posts, we promised a series of posts attending to specific compliance issues related to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP). This is the first of what we hope will be an informative and useful set...
July 09, 2013
In selection systems that leverage more than one procedure and/or tool to make employment decisions, evaluation of disparities becomes complicated, as disparity analyses may be required at multiple steps in the process. Selection procedures...
July 09, 2013
EEOC recently sued BMW Manufacturing and Dollar General alleging that their use of criminal background checks resulted in discrimination against African Americans. The cases highlight the risks associated with the use of criminal background checks...
July 09, 2013
The Settlement was announced on 6/28/13 and may be viewed on the EEOC Website at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/6-28-13c.cfm. The details on this one are skimpy. In 2009, an African American candidate for a truck driver position at a J.B....
July 09, 2013
The ruling was handed down on 6/24/13 [2013 U.S. LEXIS 4703]. The issue of whether an alleged harasser is a supervisor or co-worker is important because employers have vicarious liability for supervisors, but must know, or have a basis for knowing,...
The ruling was handed down on 6/24/13 [2013 U.S. LEXIS 4701]. In a 7-1 vote (with Justice Kagan not participating), the Court decided that the district used the wrong standard for ruling summary judgment for the university, which, the 5th Circuit...
Many readers are familiar with the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP), which describe the standards by which EEO regulatory agencies evaluate adverse impact analyses and validation evidence in impact cases. Although these...
