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2019 Rewind: Reflecting on a Year of Hard Work & Hustle
Another year is quickly coming to a close, and as we look back at the past 12 months, we have a lot to be grateful for. This year brought new products and service offerings, new team members, exciting partnerships and so many new Members! As the holidays approach, we...
OFCCP Week In Review: December 16, 2019
- New Resource to Increase Disability Self-Identification
- DE Talk: Episode 3 Launched Discussing Career Site Accessibility from a Compliance and Recruitment Perspective
- OFCCP Seeks Comments on Construction Compliance Check Letters
- Hire Vets Medallion Recipients Announced!
- DE Hit the Road to Michigan for the Annual AA/EEO & Diversity Conference Hosted by the American Society for Employers (ASE)
- Update to the FLSA “Regular Rate”
- NLRB Returns to Pre-Obama Era Legal Test for “Joint-Employer” Status
- EEO-1 Component 2 Saga Continues
- NLRB Rolls Back the “Quickie Election”
Fresh from the Roost: November 2019
With Thanksgiving looming ahead at the end of the month, the Roosters worked fervently to get a new group of career sites updated and launched, but tensions were high as thousands of fellow fowl headed to the freezer section. Thankfully (pun intended), the Roosters...
OFCCP Week In Review: December 9, 2019
- OFCCP v. Oracle (Pay Discriminations Lawsuit) Hearing Began
- November Employment Situation
DE Talk Unplugged: David Muir
While veteran unemployment is often a hot topic in the HR world, and thankfully on the decline, veteran underemployment is still a major issue–and one that isn’t often discussed. What does that mean exactly? An underemployed veteran is a veteran who has accepted a job...
OFCCP Week In Review: December 2, 2019
- NLRB Announced Extension for Comments on “Employee”
- OFCCP Announced Native American Outreach Action Plan
Social Roundup: November 2019
This month our content series had two main focuses: veterans and apprenticeships. In honor of Veterans Day, we hosted a series of exclusive webinars centered on the topic of veteran and military hiring, and to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week (Nov. 11-15), we...
OFCCP Week In Review: November 25, 2019
- EEOC Issued Financial Report
- Recap of OFCCP Regulatory Actions
- EEOC Held Public Hearing
- ETA To Update EEO Compliant Form
- Lowry Confirmed for VETS
- OFCCP Will Not Use Component 2 Data
- REMINDER: Comments Due for IWD Self-ID Form Revisions
The “Non-Binary” Dilemma: Federal Gender Reporting When “Male” & “Female” Are No Longer the Only Realities in the Workplace
Employers now face a new challenge: federal gender reporting. Both biology and culture have overtaken the historically simple “binary” reporting systems of the biologically designated sex of human beings. Now what? Get first an understanding of social, legal, and medical nomenclature and experts John C. Fox and Jay J. Wang will share how to best address this growing employment matter.
What’s the Value of a New Career Site?
Every few years, the idea of updating the career site usually pops up on the radar for most HR/talent acquisition teams. Whether the site should be updated more frequently than that is a totally different conversation for another day (hint, the answer is yes, assuming...