Background
Rose Mesina has extensive experience in labor and employment litigation support, data consulting, forecasting, and predictive analytics. Her expertise includes managing complex databases, developing statistical models in disparate impact matters, conducting pay equity analyses, providing support for OFCCP audits, non-discrimination assessments, and other compliance activities. She frequently provides consulting on discrimination matters, wage and hour issues, AI audits, pay transparency, and DEI. She is additionally skilled in data analysis and litigation support for disparate impact claims in fair housing and voting rights matters.
Focus Areas
Experience
Litigation support services to defense counsel in gender, race, and age discrimination matters for employers in the video game, entertainment, technology, healthcare, higher education, news, retail, legal, waste management, and other industries.
Litigation support services to defense counsel in meal break, rest break, and regular rate calculations for overtime cases.
Litigation support services to defense counsel in misclassification matters. Calculations include economic benefits to independent contractor or employee status and potential overtime liability.
Litigation support services to defense counsel in NYC housing discrimination matter.
Litigation support services to defense counsel in voting rights matter alleging adverse impact to younger voters.
Litigation support services to defense counsel in discrimination matters against federal government agencies.
OFCCP compliance support services to federal contractors across many industries including healthcare, higher education, technology, telecommunications, professional services, and others. Services include disparate impact analyses in pay and hiring practices.
Consulting work for AI tool vendor, involving testing AI output for bias at various selection cutoffs.
Pay equity consulting work for employers across industries including food, retail, manufacturing, higher education, logistics, technology, entertainment, and others.
Yearly consulting work for a car manufacturer, involving yearly employee pay data. Providing business with overall payroll increase. Further assisting in allocation of increase to better performing employee cohorts while addressing gender and race pay differentials.
Yearly pay transparency consulting work for a media company, involving base pay and incentive data. Providing business with pay gap metrics for public disclosure.
Yearly consulting work for a telecommunications company, based on yearly employee pay data. Providing business with each employee’s individually calculated pay increase amounts.
Quarterly consulting work for a fast-food chain, based on quarterly employee pay data. Providing business with gender and race pay differentials, diversity metrics, and impact of employment actions on diversity and pay metrics.
Presentations
Pay Transparency: Legislative Updates and Risk Reduction Tips, October 2024 Webinar
Education
M.S in Statistics, The George Washington University
B.A in Economics, University of Virginia