This webinar will provide a timely and practical examination of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) and their enduring role in employment testing, hiring, promotion, and other talent decisions. Employment attorney Consuela Pinto and industrial-organizational psychologist Brian Marentette will explore the legal and scientific principles that underpin the guidelines and the reasons they have remained a cornerstone of personnel selection practice for more than four decades.
Participants will learn how the Guidelines have been applied by courts, regulatory agencies, employers, and testing professionals to evaluate adverse impact and support the validity of employment decision tools. The webinar will also review recent developments in the regulatory and political landscape, including discussions about the future of the Guidelines and the perspectives being advanced by both government stakeholders and industry groups.
Drawing on both legal and psychometric perspectives, the presenters will discuss potential implications for employers if the federal government were to modify or abolish the Guidelines, and what standards, frameworks, or best practices might emerge in their place.
Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of the practical, legal, and scientific issues surrounding the Uniform Guidelines and the considerations organizations should be monitoring as the future of employment selection regulation continues to evolve.
Brian Marentette, Ph.D. is the Director of People Insight at Berkshire. He specializes in research and statistical methods related to equal employment opportunity compliance in employee hiring, promotion, termination, and compensation decisions in high-stakes settings. Over the last 16+ years, he has consulted to organizations with national and global footprints in some of the most high-stakes, litigious settings to develop and defend more than 100 personnel selection systems.
Dr. Marentette has also supported numerous organizations as they worked alongside the U.S. Department of Justice to comply with Federal consent decrees resulting from discrimination in past hiring and promotional practices. In his current role as Director of the People Insights Division, Dr. Marentette leads our personnel selection/test validation, pay equity analytics, diversity metrics, and EEO/OFCCP analytics work.
Consuela Pinto is a Partner at PintoBrown PLLC. Consuela’s extensive experience representing employers in both private practice and at the U.S. Department of Labor affords her a valued perspective in the representation of businesses of all sizes. She advises employers on compliance with workplace laws and regulations, federal government investigations, pattern and practice systemic claims, and compliance with federal contractors’ affirmative action and non-discrimination obligations.
Consuela’s significant private practice experience includes representing employers on a nationwide basis in compliance reviews before the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and systemic investigations initiated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Consuela counsels clients on pay equity matters, conducts DE&I audits, and trains employees and managers on workplace compliance matters.
Berkshire, a division of Resolution Economics, LLC, is a human resources and technology firm specializing in non-discrimination, pay equity, and workforce data analytics. With nearly 40 years of experience in the industry, Berkshire is among the most trusted names in the business.
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Berkshire Associates is a human resources compliance and workforce analytics consulting firm, specializing in federal and state EEO compliance and reporting, pay equity, test validation/development, human resource development and analytics, and implementation of artificial intelligence best practices. For more than 40 years, our consultants have helped employers turn workforce data into actionable decisions.
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