Within the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), there have been important policy, enforcement, and leadership changes.  This article provides insight into how new leadership within EEOC and OFCCP has impacted the design, implementation, and monitoring of EEO enforcement.  Specifically, we will review EEOC leadership changes and policy updates as well as OFCCP leadership changes and directives, with a focus on pay equity enforcement, outreach, and a forecast for 2019.

Awareness of I-O psychology has been on the rise thanks to articles written and featuring our SIOP members. These are member media mentions found from December 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019.                           

We scan the media on a regular basis but sometimes articles fall through our net. If we’ve missed your or a colleague’s media mention, please send them to us! We push them on our social media and share them in this column, which you can use to find potential collaborators, spark ideas for research, and keep up with your fellow I-O practitioners.

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