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OFCCP Week In Review: July 5, 2022

by John C. Fox | Jul 5, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

USDOJ Announced the Settlement of Claims That 16 Employers Posted Job Ads on College Recruiting Platforms Discriminating Against Non-U.S. Citizens: Attention ALL Recruiters, Especially College and University Recruitment Centers: USDOJ Has Put a Target On Your Backs
Enforcement of Biden Vaccine Mandate for Federal Employees Again Delayed
OFCCP Director & EEOC Chair Held A Joint Webinar With Four Outside Panelists Discussing Skills-Based Hiring
OFCCP Quietly Extended the AAP Verification Deadline Following Discovery of Faux Pas
SCOTUS Reigned In The Federal Agencies By Reminding Them They Must Identify “Clear Congressional Authorization” When Making Significant Decisions…Not So Much Trimming Rights As Trimming Presidential Power
VETS Announced Eight New Partners For Its Employment Navigator Pilot Program

The Three Things Human Resources Professionals Now Need To Do Following The Dobbs Decision (Reversing Roe)

by John C. Fox | Jun 27, 2022 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

Here are all 213 pages of the Slip Opinions of the SCOTUS in DOBBS, STATE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ET AL. v. JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION ET AL. This is almost half-a ream of paper. Heck, the Syllabus alone (the Clerk of the Court’s unofficial summary of the case decision) is eight pages in length…

OFCCP Week In Review: June 27, 2022

by John C. Fox | Jun 27, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

Spring 2022 Regulatory Agenda Recycles OFCCP Items From Previous Agendas; WHD And NLRB List Significant Items
House Appropriations Subcommittee Approved FY 2023 Bill; OFCCP Funding In Line With President Biden’s Request
E-Verify Released Seven New Case Processing Enhancements To Increase Awareness of Duplicate Cases & Improve Search Functions
ODEP Announced “Disability: Part of the Equity Equation” As The Theme For National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October
ODEP Is Seeking More Particularized Information About Employees with Disabilities
The Three Things Human Resources Professionals Now Need To Do Following The Dobbs Decision (Reversing Roe)
EEOC Announced The Addition Of A New “X” Gender Marker To Charge Intake Process

OFCCP Week In Review: June 20, 2022

by John C. Fox | Jun 20, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

OMB Is About to Overhaul Federal Data Collections of Race and Ethnicity Information: Federal Contractors Beware of Coming New Data Collection and Reporting Burdens
New Biden Executive Order Details Plan For Feds To Collect Sexual Orientation, Gender identity, and Sex Characteristics Data: An Old Acronym Now Takes Center Stage: SOGI. Federal Contractors Beware of Coming New Data Collection And Reporting Burdens
USDOL Wage & Hour Division Published a Proposal to Revise the Existing WD-10 Form for Federal Construction Contractors
NLRB Majority Holds That Trump-era “Block-Charging” Rule Does Not Prevent NLRB Staff from Issuing Merit-Based Dismissals of Election Petitions – Even Without a Full Evidentiary Hearing
OMB And GSA Announced A “Technology Modernization Fund”
USDOL’s Wage & Hour Division Issued New Guidance Limiting Subminimum Wages To Disabled And Young Employees: No Rulemaking, Yet Again.

OFCCP Week In Review: June 13, 2022

by John C. Fox | Jun 13, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

DirectEmployers Welcomes Cynthia L. Hackerott to the Week In Review Reporting Team
SCOTUS Limits Federal Preemption Otherwise Requiring Arbitration Of Airport Ramp Workers Claims
President Biden Nominated Karla Gilbride to Be the Next EEOC General Counsel
U.S. Senate Blocks Biden Nominee To Lead EBSA; But She is Likely To Nonetheless Get Confirmed Following An Upcoming “Déjà Vu Procedural Motion
ODEP “Disability and The Digital Divide” Report: Significant Access Gap to Computers/Internet Hurts Employment
Home Depot Employee’s Display of Black Lives Matter/BLM on Work Apron Was Not a Protected Activity; Employer’s Enforcement of Dress Code Did Not Violate NLRB, ALJ Concludes

OFCCP Week In Review: June 6, 2022

by John C. Fox | Jun 6, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

Survey Says…Participants Prefer Online Mediation For EEOC Charge Resolution
EARN Released Short Video To Assist Employers in Mental Health Awareness
Federal Court Finds Georgia County Employee Medical Insurance Program Violated Title VII On Its Face By Denying A Transgender Female Employee “Sex Change” Surgery Coverage
NLRB Revised Electronic Notice Posting Requirement
May’s Employment Situation Relatively Status Quo from April

GAO Made Seven Lackluster Recommendations to OFCCP to “Improve Oversight of Veterans’ Federal Contractor Employment”

by John C. Fox | May 31, 2022 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

Responding to unnamed and unknown “Congressional Requesters,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued a 45-page written report titled “Equal Employment Opportunity: Better Assistance and Data Use Could Improve Oversight of Veterans’ Federal...

Unanimous Appellate Court Struck Down ALJ Decision Finding Baltimore Enterprise Rent-a-Car Guilty of Unlawful Race Discrimination: Judge Did Not Understand Title VII Law

by John C. Fox | May 31, 2022 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

In an unforgiving decision, a unanimous Administrative Review Board of the USDOL reversed and remanded the entirety of the 2019 Recommended Decision and Order of USDOL Administrative Law Judge Morris Davis. In doing so, the ARB held that Judge Davis misunderstood and...

OFCCP Week In Review: May 31, 2022

by John C. Fox | May 31, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

Unanimous Appellate Court Struck Down ALJ Decision Finding Baltimore Enterprise Rent-a-Car Guilty of Unlawful Race Discrimination: Judge Did Not Understand Title VII Law
The Crossroads of Mental Health Illness and the FMLA
E-Verify Clarified Process Terms
EEOC Commissioner Nominee Failed to Secure U.S. Senate Confirmation: Political Drama About To Unfold
GAO Made Seven Lackluster Recommendations to OFCCP to “Improve Oversight of Veterans’ Federal Contractor Employment”
Overtime Listening Session For West Coast Employers
E-Verify Improves Process Forms
Comment Now on Functional Affirmative Action Program Processes

OFCCP Changes Up Its Audit Selection Methodology: OFCCP Plunged Deeper into New Era of “Drive-Thru Audits”

by John C. Fox | May 23, 2022 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

OFCCP published a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for Supply & Service Contractors for FY 2022. As OFCCP Director Jenny Yang previously promised, the new List includes 400 federal contractors and, for the first time in several years, some...