By now you may have heard that Target agreed last week to pay $2.8 million to settle a Commissioner’s charge of discrimination by the EEOC originating from its Minneapolis Area office and arising out of its pre-employment testing practices. According to the EEOC three of the tests excluded a disproportionate number of otherwise qualified candidates…
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In Part I of this post we examined the close connection between the OFCCP’s focus on pay equity and the hiring of veterans and individuals with disabilities (IWD’s) in 2014 and President Obama’s agenda. We continue here by comparing the President’s agenda and actions regarding LGBT workers and other, more general workers’ rights issues with…
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You may have heard that the OFCCP announced that it reached a settlement with Comcast on Thursday April 30, 2015. Per the settlement terms, Comcast will pay $53,633 in back pay and interest to 96 current and former female employees and $133,366 in back pay and interest to 100 Asian, African-American and Hispanic applicants to…
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Many of us know that to be a direct federal contractor we must first have one or more contracts under which we do business with one or more federal government agencies by providing goods or services. We also know that in order to be subject to federal Affirmative Action requirements, we must have 50 or…
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In Part I of this post we examined the close connection between the OFCCP’s focus on pay equity and the hiring of veterans and individuals with disabilities (IWD’s) in 2014 and President Obama’s agenda. We continue here by comparing the President’s agenda and actions regarding LGBT workers and other, more general workers’ rights issues with…
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