by John C. Fox | Jan 2, 2024 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)
- Embracing Generational Differences at Work Discussed in New DE Talk Podcast
- President Biden Intends to Renominate Julie Su to be the Next U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council Issued Final Rule Requiring Unionized Workforces on Large Federal Construction Projects
- EEOC Commissioner Sonderling Continued Advocating for Increased EEOC Involvement in Regulating AI in the Workplace
- In Brief
- New Publications
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
by John C. Fox | Apr 10, 2023 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)
- OFCCP (Silently) Again Updated Its FOIA Objection Portal
- JOLTS Report: Job Openings Decreased by 632k in February, Rate Dropped to 6.0%
- Latest DE Talk Podcast Discussed Building Employee Resource Groups to Create Trustworthy Environments to Encourage ID&E Conversations
- President Biden Issued “Modernizing Regulatory Review” Executive Order
- Substantially More People in All Race/Ethnic Groups Worked from Home Between 2019-2021, U.S. Census Bureau Reported
- Economy Added 236k Jobs in March, Unemployment Rate Decreased Slightly to 3.5%
- In Brief
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
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.
by John C. Fox | Jan 11, 2021 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)
On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) for review a Final Rule amending DOJ’s regulations administering Title VI (Title 6) of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Final Rule...
by John C. Fox | Jan 5, 2021 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)
On December 22, 2020, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) sent two proposed audit Scheduling Letters to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) seeking OMB’s approval for OFCCP to use them to launch “focused reviews on promotion” and...
by John C. Fox | Dec 23, 2019 | Week In Review (WIR)
- Win $100,000 for Innovative Outreach
- NLRB Restored Longstanding Union Dues Checkoff Rule
- New 503 Focused Review Resources
- NLRB Approved Confidentiality in Workplace Investigations
- Employers Take Back Email Control
- Federal Agency Engagement Scores Released
- Budget Passed; President Trump Signed Both Bills Avoiding Government Shutdown
- WHD Seeks Comments on Paid Sick Leave
- EEOC Seeks to Close Portal for Component 2 Data
by John C. Fox | Oct 14, 2019 | Week In Review (WIR)
- Supreme Court Declines to Weigh-In on ADA and Mobile Accessibility at This Time
- SCOTUS Heard Oral Arguments on LGBTQ Cases
- EEOC & OMB ask the Court to End the Component 2 Data Collection by November 11, 2019
- Director Leen Kicks off NELI
- NELI Part III – Reasonable Accommodations & Other Hot Topics
- OFCCP Released TAG for Educational Institutions
- Legal Counsel Sworn into EEOC
by John C. Fox | Sep 5, 2017 | Week In Review (WIR)
- Thomas Dowd responds to letter of opposition regarding the potential EEOC/OFCCP Merger
- Pay component of EEO-1 Report suspended
- Permanent injunction issued by Texas Federal court stopping Obama Overtime Rule
- Hurricane Harvey Relief: OFCCP issued National Interest Exemption from AAP development for employers entering into supply and service contracts
- Head of South Carolina Workforce Agency, Cheryl Stanton, to Lead DOL Wage and Hour Unit
by John C. Fox | Apr 17, 2017 | Week In Review (WIR)
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review (WIR), John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the missing nominees from Team Trump; the OMB tells all federal executive agencies to start planning to reorganize and downsize; hot topic of EEO-1 compensation reporting; and USDOJ drops lawsuit against North Carolina’s revoked HB2 “Bathroom Bill”.
by John C. Fox | Feb 20, 2017 | Week In Review (WIR)
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review (WIR), John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the many Senate confirmations within the Veterans Administration and the Office of Management and Budgets, as well as who’s “out” and who’s “in” to be the incoming Secretary of Labor.