Jennifer Polcer

The Iowa Supreme Court Gives A Male Transgender Employee The Win On The Restroom Dispute and On Gender Reassignment Surgery

by Jennifer Polcer | Apr 11, 2022 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

The Iowa Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict in favor of a transgender employee assigned a female sex at birth who claimed gender identity discrimination for denying him use of the men’s restrooms and locker rooms. The Court also affirmed the jury’s verdict that the...

The Big Reveal: Three Updated & Three New OFCCP (Audit) Scheduling Letters Go Live!

by Jennifer Polcer | Apr 13, 2020 | Week In Review (WIR)

In April 2019, OFCCP Proposed six Scheduling Letters. Four of these were new altogether: Section 503 Focused Review (which previously went live in February 2019) VEVRAA Focused Review Construction (Direct Contract) Construction (Federally Assisted) …and two were...

Is your Career Site OFCCP Compliant?

by Jennifer Polcer | Jan 21, 2020 | OFCCP Compliance

Does anyone remember the days of walking into a Human Resource (HR) office and asking to fill out an application? The lovely HR person peeled off the top sheet of a pad of applications, handed you a clipboard, and directed you to where you could sit to complete the...

Calendar Year 2017 Announced as Second Data Set for EEO-1 Component 2 Reporting by EEOC

by Jennifer Polcer | May 2, 2019 | OFCCP Compliance Alerts

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will announce, tomorrow, per their court-ordered deadline, their decision to collect 2017 pay data (EEO-1 Component 2) from EEO-1 filers by September 30, 2019. The EEOC expects to begin collecting EEO-1 Component...

VEVRAA Benchmark for Hires: How Much Do you Really Know About this Percentage and Its Meaning?

by Jennifer Polcer | Apr 16, 2019 | OFCCP Compliance

OFCCP lowered the current VEVRAA “Benchmark for hires” for protected veterans from 6.4% to 5.9% effective March 31, 2019. Since the inception of this percentage in 2014, we have watched OFCCP steadily stair step down the Benchmark. But how much do you really know...

Outreach is More than Sending Job Listings and Job Postings…Right??

by Jennifer Polcer | Mar 27, 2019 | OFCCP Compliance

Many of our Members are on calendar year Affirmative Action Programs. By now (hopefully), most of you have reviewed your 2018 data, and in some cases, you may be establishing your action-oriented programs for areas where you have placement goals. As you analyze what...