OFCCP Director Pat Shiu has garnered some flattering and critical (both) press coverage for her recent speech to the annual meeting of The National Employment Lawyer’s Association (NELA), one of the country’s leading trade associations for Plaintiff Employment Lawyers. (Note: NELA is not to be confused with NELI – the National Employment Law Institute, which many believe, is the country’s leading non-profit employment law training institute. Ethics Alert: I sit on the Board of Directors of NELI.)
Director Shiu’s speech is on OFCCP’s website at this link: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/addresses/Director_address_NELA_Jun272013.htm
While many things caught my eye in this major speech, the statements that leaped off the page at me were these two as Director Shiu, an accomplished civil rights litigator, was describing to the NELA membership OFCCP’s conciliation mission and its litigation “sanctions”: …
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