The OFCCP is a federal agency that enforces employment discrimination laws for those organizations receiving federal funds. The Center for Corporate Equality (CCE) has released its annual report summarizing enforcement results developed by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on their equal employment and affirmative action requirements. The report, A REVIEW OF OFCCP ENFORCEMENT STATISTICS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008, offers a detailed analysis of the agency’s fiscal year 2008 enforcement results that resulted in $67,518,982 in back pay and annualized salary and benefits for 24,508 American workers who had been subjected to unlawful employment discrimination. In addition, this report includes a comparison of enforcement results from FY 2007 to FY 2008. The in-depth results of this analysis provide useful information about OFCCP’s enforcement programs that the agency does not make publicly available. The report is available on CCE’s website at www.cceq.org.
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There is a local chapter of IPMA-HR in Northern Ohio. They currently meet quarterly at various locations in and around northern Ohio. Cost of membership starts at $25 per year and is tiered based on the number of eligible employees in your agency. If you have questions about this group, you should contact:
I realize it has been awhile since I blogged. I was exploring other outlets including twitter and Facebook. I was also doing some investigation into the whole problem of googling for employment information and how it impacts communication outlets including blogs. But I am back.
Creativity has always intrigued me, especially the psychology of creativity. One of the best sources of easy data on creativity is comics. Few comics have had the impact of Calvin and Hobbes. An interesting interview with the creator of Calvin and Hobbes appears in the Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watterson_creator_of_belo.html
For the more technically oriented reader in the audience, with a specific interest in advanced topics in assessment – there is a new blog out there. It can be found at http://www.assess.com/blog/. It is a product of Assessment System Corporation. They do a lot of good work in the area of computerized testing.
In HR News of a legal variety, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) just became effective. The GINA prohibits employment discrimination based upon genetic information about an applicant or employee or a member of his or her family. GINA also makes it unlawful for employers to disclose genetic information about applicants or employees; and employers must keep genetic information confidential and in a separate medical file.
According to the Akron Beacon Journal:
“A national study says 74 percent of all adults in the United States — nearly 171 million people — read a newspaper or its online component during the past week.”
So could it be true? I guess it could be, if you define an “adult” as anyone over 30.
All I know is that when I teach a class or give a lecture, I ask the class several questions. One question is “how many people read a newspaper?” – first the actual paper and then online. Usually, at most, one hand in the room goes up. As a result, I find it difficult to believe that 74% of adults are reading newspapers.
I ask two additional questions. The first is “how many are on Facebook?” Usually, every hand or every hand but one goes up. The second question is “how many are on MySpace?” Usually, one or two hands. That would lead me to the conclusion that among the college student set Facebook is much more popular than MySpace.
I love newspapers. I would be lost without a few newspapers to read. Of course, I am old and senile. The bigger question is – what if anything are young people missing by not reading the newspaper?
I just got back from New York City and now I am glad again to live in Northeast Ohio. I was walking around the Upper West Side, looking for Meg Ryan, when I came across an open house for an apartment for rent or lease. So, I decided to check it out.
Long story short, it was a one bedroom in a basement that would have rented for at most $500 a month in Northeast Ohio. Rent in New York City – $3,000 a month. Almost 10 times what I would pay.
There’s no place like home.
My past rant generated a number of opinions from commentators expressing the view that jobs, or the lack of jobs, are the reason that people do not live in Northeast Ohio. Personally, I agree with you. However, I am going to play devil’s advocate and argue that jobs are not a cause but an effect.
Basically, the old viewpoint was that most of you were right. That is, people went were they could find jobs, or they did 50 or 100 years ago.
However, a new argument, and one many communities in Northeast Ohio have paid big money to hear, is that jobs are not a cause but an effect. By this I mean, people go where they want to live. People go to communities that offer the amenities they desire. Especially creative and entrepreneurial people. Those energetic people then create the jobs. So, jobs do not make a location desirable. It is a desirable location, which attracts productive people, who then create the good jobs.
This relationship between positive characteristics of a community and the creation of jobs is held to be especially true for Generation Millennial and for various minority groups.
So, who is right? Do jobs lead people to want to move to an area such as Northeast Ohio? Or is it the people pleasing properties of the cosmopolitan city that lead people to want to move to an area and create jobs?
In order to give this rant some context – it was in response to an exchange regarding testing, and possible faking of responses, in public sector employment testing. Thus, leading to my complete change of topic and rant: [click to continue…]
The Psychology Archives at the University of Akron will continue its fall colloquium series by welcoming psychologist Dr. Florence L. Denmark, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 2 to 4 p.m., in Student Union 312. Denmark’s lecture, “The History of Women In Psychology and the Development of the Psychology of Women,” is free and open to the public.
Denmark is an internationally recognized scholar, researcher and policy maker. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in social psychology and has five honorary degrees. Denmark’s most significant research and extensive publications have emphasized women’s leadership and leadership styles, the interaction of status and gender, aging women in cross-cultural perspective and the history of women in psychology.
