The EEOC issued a multi-pronged call to action in the Final Report of its Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace on June 20, 2016. The Task Force acknowledged that in the thirty years since the landmark case, Meritor Savings Bank v Vinson (holding that workplace harassment is an actionable form…
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The OFCCP promised to focus on ensuring pay equity by federal contractors. Not only has it delivered, but it has gone at least one step further, in a very creative, innovative and proactive approach. Starting at least as far back as late 2013 the OFCCP began rooting out contractors that engage in steering practices. No,…
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Strangers will sometimes look at my family and try to work out the relationships. My mother is Scottish and my father is Chinese. My husband’s heritage is Irish, our three biological sons look Scotch-Irish, and our daughter, who was adopted from China, looks like her Chinese grandfather. We clearly are a family unit, but people…
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As a federal contractor, you have probably been told in no uncertain terms that federal laws (and specifically, anti-discrimination laws) pre-empt state laws. You may have also heard some rumblings from the EEOC about transgender employees’ access bathrooms. You may also have heard of some controversy on this point in North Carolina. If you are…
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Many employers, federal contractors included, run criminal background checks on their candidates. If you do not, you run the risk of hiring a dishonest or even violent employee. If you do and you do not run them correctly, you risk running afoul of federal and state anti-discrimination laws and fair credit reporting acts—and OFCCP scrutiny….
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