More to Learn from the Baldor Settlement Release

In addition to the earlier discussion of Baldor Electric, which recently settled discrimination claims for $2,000,000, and Director Shiu’s press release quote, I would to point out something else that was very interesting that the OFCCP usually doesn’t do:  State the total values of the contracts the offending contractor has with the government.  In Baldor’s…
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The Baldor Settlement and Learning from its Press Release

Last Monday it was announced that Baldor Electric, a manufacturing company based in Fort Smith, AR, was settling systemic discrimination claims for $2,000,000. What I would like to focus on is a quote from the OFCCP’s press release about Baldor: “Discrimination is preventable when employers have certain processes in place and see to it that…
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Data Diving — Part 1: Learning From History and OFCCP Trends

Although we’d been working with data from the DOL’s Enforcement Database for a couple weeks, hats off to the consultants who beat us to publishing some of it. However, we’re going to take this data in a very different direction in the hopes we may really motivate contractors to get their ducks in a row. The different…
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