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Affirmative Action Plan Preparation
OFCCP Audits
OFCCP Advice and Counsel
Statistical Analysis of Employment Practices
Biography
Ms. Horvitz has substantial experience preparing affirmative action plans, representing government contractors before the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), preparing for and defending OFCCP audits, evaluating compensation disparity claims, opposing OFCCP jurisdictional claims for companies without government contracts, evaluating single entity (single employer) claims, advising on the preparation of EEO-1 and VETS-100A forms and counseling employers on myriad issues arising out of their obligations under OFCCP's regulations. She also counsels employers on the overlap between affirmative action and diversity initiatives.
Ms. Horvitz is Co-Chair of Littler's OFCCP Practice Group. She has prepared and defended hundreds of desk audit submissions. She has significant on-site defense experience preparing and defending managers in interviews and in preparing employees for interviews.
Education
J.D., National Law Center at George Washington University, 1990
B.S., Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1987
Lectures & Presentations
Ms. Horvitz speaks frequently to government contractor groups on various affirmative action and audit preparation topics. She was a featured speaker at the SHRM Annual Conference in San Diego in June 2005 on OFCCP's Compensation Agenda; she spoke at the 2005, 2007, and 2009 National Industry Liaison Group Annual Conferences. She has spoken before more than a dozen local and regional industry liaison groups (ILGs) and has developed and presented training sessions to several clients regarding Internet Applicant, the importance of record-keeping, the use of tests in the selection process and compensation analyses. Since 2006, Ms. Horvitz, along with her colleague, Joshua S. Roffman, have presented several web seminars on preparing affirmative action plans and OFCCP desk audit submissions. In 2008, Ms. Horvitz, Mr. Roffman and OFCCP Practice Group Co-Chair, George Chaffey, presented a series of web seminars on the critical importance of record-keeping to defend employer selection practices, and will do so again in March 2010.
Activities
District of Columbia Bar
Maryland Bar Association
American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
Cases/Courts/Judges
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and District of Columbia Circuits
United States District Courts for the District of Maryland and the District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Maryland Court of Appeals
Litigation Experience
Ms. Horvitz successfully litigated a disability discrimination jury trial in the District of Columbia, an employee benefits bench trial in the District Court for the Northern District of New Jersey, a wrongful termination case that proceeded in parallel tracks through the District and Circuit Courts in the District of Columbia, the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Fourth Circuit, as well as several class and collective action cases before the federal courts involving race and age discrimination.