Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) posted an updated and expanded technical assistance publication that addressed questions arising under the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Laws related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with new information for employers and employees about COVID-19 vaccinations,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 8, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the launching of a new process for the public to request a formal opinion letter from the EEOC concerning Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 8, 2020, ten Democratic members of the United States Senate sent a letter requesting clarification from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Janet Dhillon regarding the EEOC’s authority to investigate bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven hiring technologies, according to a press release…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 3, 2020, a class action lawsuit was filed in federal court that claimed the background check process of New York Life Insurance Company that allegedly denied jobs due to past arrests not resulting in convictions was discriminatory and disproportionately harmed Black job applicants, ClassAction.org reported.…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 2, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) launched a new interactive data query and mapping tool called EEOC Explore that gives users access to the most current, granular, and privacy protected aggregate EEO-1 data available and allows users to analyze aggregate data associated…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 16, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – an agency advancing opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – published its annual Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Agency Financial Report that showed the EEOC secured a record amount of recovery…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) – which is part of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) – has entered into agreements with two California-based federal technology contractors to resolve allegations of systemic pay discrimination against 391 female employees in several states. While not admitting…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 19, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a federal government agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that Andrea R. Lucas was sworn in as a Commissioner of the EEOC. “I look forward…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 14, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – a federal government agency that advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that Jocelyn Samuels was sworn in as a Commissioner of the EEOC. “I am committed to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On October 9, 2020, the Federal Register published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that proposes to amend procedural rules in order to enhance the effectiveness and accountability of the conciliation process, according to a press release from the…
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