According to the US Department of Labor, workplace harassment can be based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or parental status. Prohibited workplace harassment may take either of two forms. It may entail “quid pro quo” harassment, which occurs in cases in which…
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Three Things You Need to Know About Pay Discrimination Last month, the University of Denver announced it had agreed to pay $2.66 million to settle an unequal-pay lawsuit. The suit was brought by seven female professors at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law who said they were not being paid as much as…
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The OFCCP Embarks on a New Era of Transparency New OFCCP Director Ondray Harris continues to put his mark on the agency with his latest revision of Obama Administration labor policy. In a two-page directive released the week of 16 April 2018, Director Harris continued the transparency push we first saw in February with Directive 2018-01. In the…
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On Starbucks, Unconscious Bias, & Very Personal Responsibility Howard Schultz had a tough week. Seems every time he tries to get out, they pull him back in. First it was Financial Crisis of 2008 that ended his short retirement, now ten years later, it is the implicit bias crisis of 2018 that’s brought the founder…
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The Struggle is Real, for Federal Contractors That Is Part 1: On the Difficulties of Attracting a Qualified, Diverse Workforce It has been, and continues to be, difficult for federal contractors to meet their diversity requirements. To get a better understanding of these difficulties, we will discuss the problem in two parts. Part I will…
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