Last week I wrote about Kate Williams research into the results of legal actions taken relating to certain hiring practices. Primarily, I focused on the financial outcomes of settling or going through the entire courtroom process, dependent largely on whether a company is facing individual plaintiffs or plaintiffs backed by the EEOC or OFCCP. Today…
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Straight from the DOL’s Veterans’ Employment & Training Service page: Special Announcement: VETS100 ONLINE REPORTING APPLICATION NOW LIVE 2011 VETS 100 Filing Cycle Contractors may now submit their VETS100 and/or VETS100A reports using the VETS100 reporting application for the 2011 filing cycle. While the filing cycle timeframe has changed, the timeframe for information used to…
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If your company is facing legal action as a result of either a failed audit or employee/applicant complaint, you’ll need to decide whether to fight the charges in court or to settle. Sometimes a large settlement is cheaper than winning a drawn-out battle in court…but unfortunately comes at the cost of appearing guilty and harming…
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Today the DOL issued this press release with the following title: Federal contractor Caviness Beef Packers agrees to pay $600,000 to applicants to resolve allegations of hiring discrimination What I would like to call attention to is the secondary headline: 746 applicants in Amarillo and Hereford, Texas, affected I am doing this is to illustrate…
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On September 27, 2011, the EEOC and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. signed a National Universal Agreement to Mediate to streamline the handling of employment discrimination claims. This agreement allows the organizations to informally resolve any workplace issues through alternative dispute resolution rather than the formal EEOC investigation process. There are over 200 national…
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