Congress Questions OFCCP’s Legal Authority to Establish a Numerical Hiring Standard
For the second time in as little as three months Congress has stepped in to shut down the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) aggressive efforts to expand their jurisdictional role. The first time being when Congress added provisions to the National [...]
Continue Reading →A study by the Grief Recovery Institute 2003 estimates that $2.4 billion of hidden costs are a part of a $75 billion a year estimated loss in U.S. employee productivity and its associated errors, omissions, and accidents that may be directly attributed to grief – physical and emotional – sustained by an employee who experiences [...]
Continue Reading →Sexual harassment claims in the workplace are still on the rise, despite the prevalence of written policies and the establishment of formal investigative procedures by nearly all organizations, according the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Male claims made up about 12 percent of all cases a decade ago. The most recent statistics show the percentage of [...]
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Courtesy of: EEOC
EEOC says Male Assistant Manager Sexually Harassed Female Employees
WILMINGTON, N.C. — SKMATCH, Inc., the operator of a Subway restaurant in Wilmington, N.C., will pay $55,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual [...]
Continue Reading →As the 2010 Year comes to a close, we are seeing the new face of the OFCCP beginning to emerge. The rising clout of OFCCP began with a 35% increase to its staff, followed by the release of Director Patricia Shiu’s six year business plan for OFCCP. What we will see moving [...]
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether to keep alive the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history, a case that claims Wal-Mart pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently.
Beginning on June 19, 2010 Federal contractors and their subcontractors are required to post notices informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). On June 3, 2010, Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will present a webinar for Federal contractors and [...]
Continue Reading →by Caroline Gentry Porter Wright Morris & Arthur In an unusual procedural move, a Ninth Circuit panel issued a revised opinion and rejected—for the second time—Wal-Mart’s request to overrule a lower court decision granting class action status to a lawsuit by six women representing a class of more than 1.5 million [...]
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