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Victoria Lipnic

Partner - Resolution Economics

Victoria A. Lipnic is a Partner at Resolution Economics. She leads the Company’s Human Capital Strategy Group. The Human Capital Strategy Group combines the Company’s expertise in data analytics and deep knowledge of regulatory requirements with an interdisciplinary approach to advise organizations on the full range of their human capital needs and reporting requirements including recruitment, selection, promotions, DE&I, pay equity, and overall talent allocation.

Lipnic joined Resolution Economics in 2021. She has broad experience in the full range of human capital, labor and employment issues, especially from the regulatory enforcement perspective. Prior to joining the Company she served as Commissioner from 2010 to 2020 and Acting Chair from 2017 to 2019 of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She was appointed to the EEOC by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. At the EEOC she worked on policy, cases, and regulations under all of the statutes enforced by the Commission including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). While at the EEOC she participated in numerous agency regulatory initiatives including the final GINA regulations, the ADA, as amended, regulations, and the revisions to the EEO-1 form to include pay data reporting. She organized the agency’s first public meeting on Big Data in Employment, created its Chief Data Officer position, oversaw development of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics and published a significant report on age discrimination. She co-chaired the EEOC’s Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace, and co-authored its seminal report, issued in 2016, before the #MeToo movement.

Prior to joining the EEOC, she practiced law with Seyfarth Shaw, LLP. She also served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards from 2002 to January 2009, a position she was appointed to by President George W. Bush. At the Department of Labor she oversaw regulatory development and enforcement for the Wage and Hour Division, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the Office of Labor Management Standards and four national workers’ compensation programs. This included oversight and enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, Executive Order 11246 and the Labor Management Reporting Disclosure Act. Vicki has presented numerous times at the NILG conference. She is a member of the NILG’s Advisory Council.

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Tuesday, July 30

Workshop 4

The Uniform Guidelines on Trial: Can They Meet the Challenge of Evaluating Artificial Intelligence?
Vicki Lipnik, Resolution Economics; Eric Dunleavy, DCI Consulting Group, Inc.; Michelle Duncan, Jackson Lewis P.C.

Artificial intelligence (AI) use in employment decision making continues to be a consequential and controversial topic, particularly for federal contractors attempting to comply with a patchwork of changing federal, state and local laws. Federal agencies have endorsed the Uniform Guidelines (1978) framework as adequate, so far. But are those guidelines enough to effectively regulate tools that leverage artificial intelligence? This panel of nationally known experts will debate that issue, focusing on the following learning objectives:

  • Describe where the Guidelines seem particularly useful and where they may be limited
  • Explain how other state and local frameworks offer novel approaches
  • Provide practical recommendations for complying with the patchwork of regulations
  • Summarize expectations for how the regulatory framework will change in response to the October 2023 Biden Administration Executive Order on AI
10:30 AM – 11:45 PM

Thursday, August 1

NILG Advisory Council Discussion

Valentin Estevez, Dan Kuang, Craig Leen, Vicki Lipnic, Danny Petrella, Consuela Pinto
Moderator: Meredith Gregston, NILG Advisory Council Coordinator