The EEOC and OFCCP Have Launched a New Initiative “HIRE” – Is Your Organization Ready to Respond?
In this session, we will discuss the initiative and how it dovetails with the Agencies’ Strategic Enforcement Plans and current enforcement actions. We will discuss strategies for employers to improve their practices in recruitment, hiring, retention, and promotion to achieve equity and remove barriers for workers. We will also focus on how to achieve these goals within the confines of existing EEO laws. Lastly, we will discuss EEOC’s and DOL’s data collection efforts and how these practices may lend themselves to enforcement activity.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the underlying driver for the HIRE initiative and how it fits in with the agencies’ strategic enforcement plans.
- Examine how the EEOC and DOL collect EEO-data and how that could be potentially be used to measure results to increase diversity hiring and retention.
- Introduction to recruitment, hiring, retention and promotion practices that may achieve more equitable results.
- Gain an understanding of how HIRE may fit in with your organization’s own DEI plan, goals and mission.
- Gain an understanding of potential barriers for underrepresented workers.
Vanessa M. Kelly
Vanessa Kelly strategizes with employers to minimize their legal risks and optimize the employee experience, to help companies focus on their business. Clients partner with Vanessa when looking to create and foster respectful workplaces that comply with national and state employment standards. Vanessa counsels her management clients about their employee relations concerns. She also creates employment and other transactional agreements to meet her client’s goals.
Maria Dwyer
Maria Dwyer litigates employment and business cases and advises senior management in employment and business considerations. She also conducts workplace investigations and investigates and serves as a certified Hearing Officer in Title IX claims and counsels educational organizations in Title IX issues. Maria advises clients across a wide range of industries including public and private employers and works with her clients to conduct workforce and senior management training, and to develop policies and strategies for workforce optimization.