The OFCCP is in the middle of sweeping regulatory and policy changes. Armed with a planned increase in their budget, more staff and a new direction, this administration will make you rethink how you deal with affirmative action compliance. Compliance may be about to become more difficult.
Join Senior Managing Directors of Affirmative Action Services, former OFCCP Compliance Officer Robert Newland and Dr. Jim Higgins, nationally respected expert in compliance-related statistical analysis to engage in a lively discussion of:
The speakers will also present the results of Affirmative Action Services' recent nationwide study on best practices in Contractor Compensation Analysis and the OFCCPs intention to rescind their 2006 Interpretive Standards for Compensation Discrimination.
Robert Newland, Sr.Managing Director of Affirmative Action Services;Dr. Jim Higgins, Ed.D. Sr. Managing Director of Affirmative Action Services
Robert Newland, Sr.Managing Director of Affirmative Action Services is a former OFCCP Compliance Officer with 20 years of experience as a consultant for many Fortune 500 organizations. Robert has been involved in a multitude of compliance reviews and investigations of alleged discrimination complaints. He is a serial entrepreneur, having extensive experience in building and managing his own companies, including business and professional services firms, executive suites facilities and mergers & acquisitions. The combination of real world business acumen and the experience at the OFCCP are what make Robert an invaluable resource to strategize in the development and execution of Affirmative Action initiatives and federal compliance audits. Robert has been a speaker at numerous events of human resources, trade and other professional associations.
Dr. Jim Higgins, Ed.D. Sr. Managing Director of Affirmative Action Services is a widely respected expert in test development and validation, compensation analysis and adverse impact. He has conducted OFCCP-related analyses, both proactive and in response to audits, for many of Americas largest and most respected companies. Jim has also developed and validated pre-employment tests for jobs representing most sectors of the economy, both public and private. Dr. Higgins is an accomplished teacher of complex topics as demonstrated by serving as a college professor teaching applied statistics as well as his founding of a nationally respected online learning community for HR professionals. Jim authored a chapter on compensation analysis in the book Adverse Impact and Test Validation and coauthored many of the chapters on regression and compensation analysis in the book Compensation Analysis: A Practitioners Guide to Identifying and Addressing Compensation Disparities.