August 2012 The Strange Case of Hawaii and Puerto Rico: Or, Where to Affirmative Action? By convention and practice (not by Executive Order, statute, regulation or guideline), OFCCP has never...
From the advent of the eight-factor analysis, availability analyses have been a central part of all federal affirmative action plans. The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance...
Recruitment and hiring processes are changing, and they are changing fast. Similar to how fast the internet changed public lives in the 1990’s, elaborate internet tools such as social media,...
Secretary Hilda Solis' vision of "Good Jobs For Everyone" was articulated in the Department of Labor's Strategic Plan for the years 2011 to 2016. All of the agencies within the...
The concept of enterprise-wide enforcement has been around in one form or another for years at OFCCP. In the late nineties it took the form of "global agreements," in the...
As a part of the data collection and record-keeping requirements under the federal government's affirmative action regulations, federal contractors and subcontractors are obligated to collect race/ethnicity and gender information from...
July 2012 What To Do in an Uncertain World...As the World Turns at OFCCP Business demands predictability and abhors uncertainty. General Counsels want to know "likely outcomes" and timetables. Vice...
Most OFCCP allegations are resolved through negotiation. Negotiations at the agency level usually end in a signed conciliation agreement. The purpose of this article is to walk you through the...
On April 18, 2012, I had the honor of testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions about various OFCCP-related issues. I have to...