A few weeks after his inauguration in January, Donald Trump appointed the only Republican Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Victoria Lipnic, as the acting chair of the Commission. The question on the minds of many employers and human resource professionals, however, was not who was going to be appointed, but whether the new…
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions will pay over $1.2 million in back pay and interest and provide additional relief to resolve allegations of systemic pay discrimination against women at its facilities in Alpharetta, Georgia, and Boca Raton, Florida. LexisNexis provides computer-assisted legal and business research and risk management services. During fiscal years 2015 and 2016, the company…
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A routine investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs found that Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits of Louisiana, LLC, systemically discriminated against black applicants in its hiring practices at its St. Rose warehouse facility. The company has entered into a consent decree to resolve the department’s claims. An OFCCP…
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The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit to require Google Inc. to provide requested compensation data and documents for the multinational company’s Mountain View headquarters as part of a routine compliance evaluation. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs asked the technology giant to submit information in September 2015 about its equal opportunity…
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Happy New Year! We start 2017 wrapping up our series on the Government Accountability Office (GAO)’s report of the OFCCP’s effectiveness in enforcing Affirmative Action laws and regulations. You may recall that the GAO in its recent report found the OFCCP to be exhibiting five areas of weakness. In the previous parts, we explored the…
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