OFCCP recently entered into two hiring settlements where the Agency alleged systemic discrimination against male applicants. These settlements reminds us OFCCP is not just focused on statistical trends against minorities and females, but that the Agency is also running adverse impact analyses against whites and males and will “go where the numbers take them.”

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We’ve previously written that the EEOC appears to be converting allegations of individual claims into nationwide, systemic discrimination investigations and we have yet another example to share with you.

According to a recently filed complaint, EEOC is alleged to have engaged in “fishing expeditions” searching for potential class members and complaints of discrimination by

In an opinion released last Friday, the District Court of Maryland granted summary judgment dismissing EEOC’s disparate impact criminal background/credit background lawsuit against the face-to-face marketing services company, Freeman.  This is the second high-profile criminal background back ground case in which EEOC has suffered a significant setback since the April 2012 issuance of the Agency’s

As we reported last week, an en banc ARB panel, granting OFCCP’s Motion for Reconsideration, ruled OFCCP could assert jurisdiction over Florida Hospital based on the first prong of the defintion of subcontract in the regulations.  The Court, however, has acknowledged that OFCCP may nevertheless be barred from asserting jurisdiction over Florida Hospital

In an opinion released today, the en banc ARB panel tasked with reviewing last years’s ARB plurality decision  – which held Florida Hospital was not subject to OFCCP jursidiction after passage of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) – has found Florida Hospital is still subject to OFCCP jursidiction based on application of the first

We can’t say it enough – the OFCCP is using aggressive tactics to impress upon contractors that non-compliance with the agency is not an option.  If you want to do business with the Government, you’ve got to “play ball” with OFFCP.

Just days before President Obama was officially sworn into a second term, OFCCP filed

As an update to our recent post discussing the latest chapter of the OFCCP/TRICARE saga, OFCCP has asked the United States Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board to reconsider their “deeply divided” decision in which a plurality of the ARB decided the National Defense Administration Act (NDAA) precluded OFCCP’s jurisdiction over Florida Hospital.  

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