This year's National Industry Liaison Group (NILG) Conference, held August 27-31, 2012 in Waikoloa, Hawaii, celebrated the 30th anniversary of the unique partnership between the NILG and the Office of...
September 2012 Notes from Kona and the 2012 NILG Meeting For those of you who do not know, the National Industry Liaison Group ("NILG") held its annual meeting at Kona,...
What is a test? While we commonly think of tests as either a series of questions to be answered and scored or a set of actions to be performed and...
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...
