Over the past year, four major federal agencies issued significant guidance related to the use of criminal background checks in delivering employment-related services by state and local governments as well ...
If you operate or administer federally funded programs and activities, or if you are a state or local government agency, federal civil rights laws require that you include the foregoing ...
Age discrimination is prohibited by federal civil rights laws. The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 requires nondiscrimination on the basis of any age in the delivery of federally-assisted services, aid, ...
Author: Seena Foster This is the only book on the market that focuses on discrimination complaint investigations in a wide range of Federally-assisted, public-facing programs and activities! Reviews by State ...
The following excerpt is from remarks delivered by Ms. Foster at a national Equal Opportunity Conference in Washington, DC: It is a privilege for me to be here today, and ...
In this article, we look at the importance of having sound policies and procedures in place for ensuring the nondiscriminatory delivery of aid, training, benefits, and services to the public ...
OSC is pleased to announce the issuance of a joint letter with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services focused on employment eligibility ...
OSC is pleased to announce that its anti-discrimination poster is now available in additional languages. OSC has published translations of its poster in Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, ...
For more information on any of these articles, go to www.dol.gov/odep. Planning for a Year of Disability Employment Action – Assistant Secretary Martinez's Blog In a blog that looks ahead ...
As a state or local government official, or as the contractor for a state or local government, you must know, and comply with, applicable federal civil rights laws. Notably, Title ...
This working paper by Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny, which was released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas this month at http://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/papers/2014/wp1403.pdf, contains analysis of data from the ...
The following are excerpts of the "Summary" and "Introduction and Background" sections of a briefing paper from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. For the complete text of the briefing ...