ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY LEADERS’ FORUM ON CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN FEDERAL CONTRACTING Featuring PATRICIA A. SHIU Director of OFCCP

Friday, May 20, 2011 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Westwood Federal Building FBI Conference Room C206 11000 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024

For more information, specific accommodation requests, or to RSVP, please contact Aliyah Levin at (310) 235-6829 or levin.aliyah@dol.gov and Felice Seto Seto.Felice@dol.gov

**FREE PARKING** Space is limited.

Please RSVP ASAP. Join of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and its efforts the laws which prohibit discrimination by those who do business with the federal affecting May

Patricia A. Shiu

Patricia A. Shiu serves as the Director of the Office of Federal
Contract Compliance Programs at the U.S. Department of Labor.
She leads a staff of nearly 800 men and women around the
country who are dedicated to protecting workers, promoting
diversity and enforcing the law.

OFCCP was established in 1965 by presidential Executive Order
11246. During its 45-year history, OFCCP’s authority has been
expanded by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam
Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974. As amended,
these three laws hold federal contractors and subcontractors to the
very reasonable standard that they must not discriminate in their employment practices on
the bases of gender, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, or status as a
protected veteran.

Director Shiu also serves on the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force which has
been charged by President Barack Obama with cracking down on violations of equal pay
laws and fulfilling, once and for all, the promise of the 1963 Equal Pay Act. She also
represents Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on the federal Interagency Working Group
of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Ms. Shiu served as Vice President for
Programs at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center in San Francisco. Ms. Shiu
joined the Employment Law Center in 1983 as a staff attorney and spent 26 years
litigating both individual and class action cases focused primarily on employment
discrimination, including gender, LGBT, national origin, immigrant, disability and race-
based discrimination and harassment.

Ms. Shiu was the Director of the Legal Aid Society’s Work and Family Project and
advocated for the passage of California’s Family Rights Act, the Family and Medical
Leave Act, and Paid Sick Leave. She has litigated numerous cases under these laws. Ms.
Shiu has also litigated educational access class action cases under Title IX and disability
laws.

Ms. Shiu began her legal career as an associate with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San
Francisco. She was the President of California Women Lawyers in 1987. In 1993, she
was appointed to the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority for the Department of Education
by Secretary Richard Riley. Ms. Shiu served as the Vice President of the National
Employment Lawyers Association and was recognized in 2009 with the Joe Morozumi
Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the 2002 recipient of the Abby J. Leibman Pursuit
of Justice Award, and the Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition's “Woman
Warrior Award.” Ms. Shiu is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the
University of San Francisco School of Law.

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY
LEADERS’ FORUM ON CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT
IN FEDERAL CONTRACTING

***ATTENDANCE IS FREE***

Westwood Federal Building
FBI Conference Room C206
11000 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
May 20, 2011
10:00 a.m. – noon

Space is Limited. Please RSVP to
Fax# (310) 235-6833 or e-mail levin.aliyah@dol.gov
ATTN: Aliyah Levin

DIRECTIONS

Take the 405 freeway to Wilshire Blvd.
Exit Wilshire Blvd (East). Make right at
Veteran Ave. Make first right into
driveway at the Westwood Federal
Building, 11000 Westwood Blvd., Los
Angeles, CA 90024. Park in lot.

***Free parking***

The C206 Room entrance is located on the
north side entrance of the cafeteria building
across from the post office.