State Attorney General follows through on threat.
Last summer, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v....more
7/16/2024
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Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College
The goal drops yet again. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the new annual hiring benchmark for protected veterans is 5.2 percent. Effective March 31, the benchmark drops from 5.4 percent to...more
No breaking news here, folks.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a resource on artificial intelligence, Select Issues: Assessing Adverse Impact in Software, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence...more
Expectations lowered yet again.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the new annual hiring benchmark for protected veterans is 5.4 percent. Effective March 31, the benchmark dropped from 5.5...more
Improving diversity -- what's okay and what isn’t?
Employers are creative and strategic when it comes to increasing workforce diversity. Sometimes, however, that creativity -- and the motivation to “move the needle” on...more
6/14/2021
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Title VII
And it's lower once again.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the new annual hiring benchmark for protected veterans is 5.6 percent. Effective March 31, the benchmark drops from 5.7...more
OFCCP updates annual hiring benchmark for protected veterans.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has posted the new hiring benchmark for protected veterans, which is 5.7 percent effective March 31, 2020...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has just announced that the hiring benchmark for protected veterans is 5.9 percent effective March 31. The Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act requires federal...more
Following its recent Directive to develop a Contractor Recognition Program, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has proposed to implement an Excellence in Disability Inclusion Award. This award would recognize...more
Laboratory Corporation of America has agreed to pay approximately $200,000 to resolve a matter with Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. According to the Conciliation Agreement between the parties, the OFCCP found...more
Patrick White, an attorney in the Cook County (Illinois) Public Defender’s Office, lost his claim that the county’s promotion process had an adverse impact on male attorneys. This judicial finding follows a jury verdict...more
A recent study in Australia sought to determine whether “de-identifying” applications – removing any information relating to race and gender – would eliminate the effects of implicit or unconscious bias and “help promote...more
Within the past month, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has announced two settlements and filed one administrative complaint involving alleged discrimination in the hiring process.
Southern Glazer’s...more
Ever since the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated its Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions in 2012, many state and local jurisdictions have adopted...more
A recent Q & A from the “Workologist” column in the New York Times caught my eye.
The correspondent was asking how to ensure that a résumé submitted online actually gets reviewed by the hiring company. That is a...more
Do you need a reason to monitor your hiring and keep good records? Here’s one.
Alleging race discrimination in the hiring process, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has settled with a unit of Norfolk...more
As announced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the updated national percentage of veterans in the workforce is continuing to decline, now at 7 percent....more