Boo! Remember when we told you that the “2022” EEO-1 filing season was set to open on Halloween? Well, among all the ghosts and ghoulies, it did! Employers have until Tuesday, December 5, 2023 to file their 2022 EEO-1 reports. We highly recommend getting them done before going into a food coma over Thanksgiving, if possible. And how you file your Continue Reading...
Walmart Didn’t Validate, Now Being Sued by EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a lawsuit against Walmart for screening out employees (not applicants) using a training program and assessment the EEOC alleges unfairly discriminated against people with disabilities and was not related to either the employees’ job duties or job performance. Walmart will likely lose Continue Reading...
How You File EEO-1 and VETS Reports Matters Much More Now
With the EEO-1 and VETS-4212 filing seasons just weeks away, federal contractor employers need to be paying closer attention to the way their organization files those reports, keeping in mind the impact it could have on their affirmative action efforts. The EEO-1 reports are primarily administered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Continue Reading...
EEO-1 Filing Season to Begin on Halloween
We finally have a date for the start of the EEO-1 filing season this year, Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Yes, that is Halloween. And on that day the ghosts and ghouls will also open the Help Desk to assist any trick-or-treaters getting an early start. But filers will have until Tuesday, December 5, 2023 to complete and file their 2022 Continue Reading...
EEOC Bags First “AI” (?) Discrimination Settlement
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), along with the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), have been putting the world on notice that these civil rights law enforcement agencies are very interested in how employers are rolling out a tidal wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Continue Reading...