As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to proliferate in the applicant screening/employee selection industry, federal contractors have been left with little to no guidance from the OFCCP regarding their compliance obligations. President Biden issued Executive Order 14110 late in 2023, which called for U.S. government agencies, including the Continue Reading...
EEOC Updates (Anti-)Harassment Guidelines
It has been about a quarter century since the EEOC significantly revised their guidance documents regarding illegal harassment in the workplace. As the world has evolved in that time, the agency has added guidance documents for specific types of harassment or specific scenarios, resulting in a small constellation of related, but somewhat Continue Reading...
What Muldrow May Mean for Federal Contractors
Even if you don’t obsess over legislative and judicial developments the way we do, it has been hard to escape coverage of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al, regarding the evidentiary standard for plaintiffs bringing a Title VII discrimination claim based not on hiring or firing, or even promotion Continue Reading...
Big Changes to Race/Ethnicity Self-Identification Ahead
The federal government has now revised its standards for collecting race and ethnicity information for just the second time since they were developed in 1977. The first, and still controversial revision came in 1997 when “Hispanic” was split out as an ethnicity and the federal government began asking about Hispanic ethnicity separately from Continue Reading...
OFCCP Publishes Updated Veteran Benchmark
Well, technically they have updated the percentage of veterans in the civilian labor force published on the OFCCP’s website, which is what most sane contractors use to set their veteran hiring benchmark for their VEVRAA AAP. The current benchmark is 5.4%, but effective Sunday, March 31, that figure will drop to 5.2%. AAPs with a start date Continue Reading...