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About The Institute

For employers, workplace legal requirements and other workplace expectations are constantly evolving. We started The Institute because we recognized the increasing complexity of government contractor legal obligations, and the growing need for enhanced education, risk assessment, strategic solutions, and collaboration to support the employer community. The goal of The Institute as an employer association is to effectively assist employer members with keeping their organizations compliant while advancing workplace equity. 

   

Our Institute leaders and advisory board have developed uniquely strong relationships with leaders of the OFCCP, EEOC, and other government agencies. We regularly meet with these officials for Agency updates and provide feedback on initiatives, both informally and formally through Opinion Letters and Public Comment on behalf of our members and the contractor community at large.


The Institute’s faculty are employment law experts comprised of nationally recognized EEO attorneys and statisticians. Through advocacy and access, our entire team represents the employer community’s perspective and concerns.

Our focus areas include:

 

  • Affirmative Action and OFCCP Compliance 
  • EEOC Compliance
  • Pay Equity 
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace 
  • The “S” in ESG
  • Wage and Hour 
  • Effective Advocacy and Unique Access

 

The Institute’s Leaders, Advisory Board, and Faculty are passionate about workplace equity and assisting contractors as they navigate the regulations.

Our Mission

Our mission is to help employers advance equality and non-discrimination in their organizations and in the American workplace. Through thought leadership, advocacy, and education we help our members understand and effectively respond to changing employment law compliance requirements and other workplace challenges. 

Diversity and Inclusion

The Institute for Workplace Equality is committed to diversity and inclusion of its leadership, Advisory Board, faculty, and membership. The Institute is seeking recommendations on qualified individuals who could increase The Institute’s diversity, especially in its Advisory Board and faculty. All recommendations are welcomed, and should be submitted to The Institute Director, Barbara Kelly: barbara.kelly@theinstitute4workplaceequality.org.

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Our Partners

Fortney & Scott

Fortney & Scott, LLC is a Washington, DC-based law firm counseling and advising clients on the full spectrum of workplace-related matters. The firm has been recognized as one of the leading management employment law firms in the highly prestigious “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers.FortneyScott has an extensive OFCCP practice.


The firm’s highly experienced attorneys represent and counsel federal contractors nationwide on complying with contractors’ nondiscrimination and affirmative action obligations enforced by OFCCP.The firm’s attorneys have successfully represented federal contractors in OFCCP audits and enforcement actions involving the full spectrum of equality issues, including hiring, compensation, record keeping and affirmative action obligations.

Additionally, we effectively have participated in presenting the views of federal contractors in numerous OFCCP rulemakings and related proceedings.


The firm offers clients unparalleled experience and expertise by its attorneys, who formerly held senior positions at the U.S. Department of Labor and other government agencies, in corporate legal staffs, in major law firms, and who served as a judge on an international tribunal. FortneyScott represents clients in agency enforcement matters and rulemakings, administrative hearings, and litigation matters, including mediation and arbitration.For more information on Fortney Scott, LLC and its services, please visit: www.fortneyscott.com

DCI Consulting

DCI Consulting is a human resource consulting firm helping to advance workforce equity and organizational effectiveness. DCI provides in-depth consulting in the areas of systemic compensation discrimination analyses, affirmative action plan development and implementation, employee selection and test validation, OFCCP audit and litigation support, and regulatory affairs and government relations.

DCI also provides clients with sophisticated affirmative action and salary equity software.DCI’s clients represent a cross-section of industries, including aerospace and defense, financial services, pharmaceuticals, high technology, and manufacturing.


DCI also works directly with national law firms to provide related litigation defense services.For more information on DCI Consulting Group and its services, please visit: www.dciconsult.com

Silberman Law PC

Silberman Law PC was formed in early 2020 with the vision to provide employers with strategic, creative and effective legal representation in the areas of Affirmative Action, OFCCP compliance, Pay Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (“D&I”) and systemic Equal Employment Opportunity.


Our firm specializes in AAP design and preparation, OFCCP audit defense, Pay Equity assessments, D&I program design and analytics, and related legal counseling and representation before government enforcement agencies. Our firm’s attorneys have decades of experience and are nationally recognized as thought leaders in these areas. We work with clients throughout the country and in a broad range of industries. Our attorneys have helped employers prepare thousands of AAPs and defend hundreds of OFCCP.

audits and investigations throughout the country and in every industry. This high volume of audit defense keeps our firm on the “cutting edge” of the OFCCP’s rapidly evolving enforcement trends. In addition, we are recognized as national experts in the areas of pay equity and systemic pay discrimination.


We work closely with our clients to conduct pay equity analyses, both on a proactive basis and in response to OFCCP and EEOC investigations and we design creative D&I programs and analytics that position our clients to truly “move the needle” on diversity.

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For more information on Silberman Law PC and its services, please visit: www.silbermanlawpc.com

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