The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a lawsuit against Walmart for screening out employees (not applicants) using a training program and assessment the EEOC alleges unfairly discriminated against people with disabilities and was not related to either the employees’ job duties or job performance. Walmart will likely lose Continue Reading...
OFCCP Releases 2023 CSAL Version 2
The OFCCP has quietly posted a second Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) on their website. The list contains 1,000 “fresh” contractor establishments or functions that have been selected, but not yet scheduled for, a compliance evaluation. True to their word in the OFCCP’s revised Scheduling Letter, they are now listing “University” as Continue Reading...
EEO-1 Filing Season to Begin on Halloween
We finally have a date for the start of the EEO-1 filing season this year, Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Yes, that is Halloween. And on that day the ghosts and ghouls will also open the Help Desk to assist any trick-or-treaters getting an early start. But filers will have until Tuesday, December 5, 2023 to complete and file their 2022 Continue Reading...
OFCCP’s New Scheduling Letter is Here!
In case you missed it, the OFCCP has revised its standard “Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing,” the documents used to initiate an agency compliance evaluation (you and I call them “audits”). Not only does receipt of this letter signal the official start of an audit, but it also effectively serves as a subpoena for documents and information that Continue Reading...
EEOC Bags First “AI” (?) Discrimination Settlement
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), along with the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), have been putting the world on notice that these civil rights law enforcement agencies are very interested in how employers are rolling out a tidal wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Continue Reading...