Last Monday it was announced that Baldor Electric, a manufacturing company based in Fort Smith, AR, was settling systemic discrimination claims for $2,000,000. What I would like to focus on is a quote from the OFCCP’s press release about Baldor: “Discrimination is preventable when employers have certain processes in place and see to it that…
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Although we’d been working with data from the DOL’s Enforcement Database for a couple weeks, hats off to the consultants who beat us to publishing some of it. However, we’re going to take this data in a very different direction in the hopes we may really motivate contractors to get their ducks in a row. The different…
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“Being a federal contractor is a privilege.” –OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu, March 22, 2012 “We’re going to skip this year. We didn’t really hire anyone and we didn’t fire anyone, so we don’t need an AAP this year.” From time to time we hear this reasonable-sounding excuse for not performing the annual update to the…
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“Under this agreement, FedEx will have to really examine and revamp its hiring practices across the entire company. The American people ought to have confidence that one of our nation’s most trusted brands will not tolerate discrimination.” –OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu, March 22, 2012 Yesterday, we’d barely finished the post we published this morning when…
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One of the hardest jobs we have here is getting buy-in that compliance is a high priority not only due to ethical considerations but also financial ones. Why companies continue to under-staff or de-prioritize various HR functions—including and especially those involving compliance—is puzzling. Case in point: NCS Pearson just signed a conciliation agreement with the…
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