OFCCP Week In Review: October 30, 2023

OFCCP Week In Review: October 30, 2023

by | Oct 30, 2023 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

  • Senate Confirmed Nomination of Jessica Looman to Head US DOL’s Wage and Hour Division
  • US NLRB Unveiled Final, Union-Friendly Joint Employer Rule
  • US DOL Inspector General’s Office Plans to Review Effectiveness of OFCCP Compliance Evaluations, FY 2024 Audit Workplan Revealed
  • In Brief
  • Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: October 30, 2023

OFCCP Week In Review: March 27, 2023

by | Mar 27, 2023 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

  • Job Search Website Operator Agreed to Electronically Scan and Remove Language in Job Postings Which Limited Jobs in the U.S. to Foreign Applicants
  • OFCCP Requested Public Comments (Again) on Proposed Changes to Disability Self ID Form
  • OFCCP Quietly Updated (Again) FOIA Objection Submissions Deadline to March 31
  • USDOL WHD Provided Second Comment Period on Proposal to Revise the Existing WD-10 Form for Federal Construction Contractors
  • An Employer’s Failure to Post the Employee Rights Notice Will Now Cost $659 Per Violation
  • USCIS Ended Covid Flexibilities for Response to Certain Notices & Requests
  • In Brief
  • Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: October 30, 2023

OFCCP Week In Review: November 7, 2022

by | Nov 7, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • There Are Three Reasons The Coming Harvard & UNC Case Decisions Will Not Harm “Affirmative Action” Despite Now Growing Fears
  • US GAO Reported That EEOC Needs Oversight on Length of Charge Intake Process
  • US BLS JOLTS Report For September Showed Increase in Job Openings to 10.7 Million; Hires & Total Separations Down Slightly
  • Analytical Basis Behind U.S. NLRB General Counsel’s Memo on Electronic Surveillance and Organizing Flawed, Says Top Labor Law Attorney
  • Political Flip Continued at U.S. NLRB with Publication of Proposed Union Election Protection Rule That Would Rescind Current Trump-Era Rule
  • Economy Added 261k Jobs in October; Unemployment Rate Increased Slightly
  • In Brief
  • Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: October 30, 2023

OFCCP Week In Review: June 20, 2022

by | 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: May 9, 2022

OFCCP Week In Review: May 9, 2022

by | May 9, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • NLRB Standardizes Education for Immigrants of Their Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act
  • Mental Health Awareness Month – What Can You Do?
  • Free Two-Day Virtual Forum On Construction and Government Contracting
  • Department of Homeland Security Extends Expiration of Employment Authorization Documents
  • EEOC to Discuss Discrimination and Harassment in Construction – Open to Public Viewing
  • EEOC and USDOL To Host Webinar Series on Advancing “Workplace Equity”
  • GAO Offered Service Contract Act Enforcement Insights When It Reported Progress to The U.S. Senate Budget Committee, But Also The Need For Further Improvement As To Five Recommendations GAO Made In 2020
  • The Great Resignation Moved into an Even Higher Gear as Short-Term and Long-Term Unemployment Both Continued Essentially Unchanged For April 2022, But More Workers Lost Touch
OFCCP Week In Review: May 9, 2022

OFCCP Week In Review: March 14, 2022

by | Mar 14, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • OFCCP Week In Review Team Named #1 in Government Contracting in JD Supra 2022 Readers Choice Awards
  • Answers to Title VII Religious Objections to COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements
  • $55M Available To Support Workforce Readiness To Individuals Leaving Prison
  • From Public Service to Corporate America: Lived Experiences of an LGBTQ Employee in the Workplace
  • Inclusive Extended Reality Technology & Hybrid Work Toolkit
  • E-Verify To Drop Internet Explorer Support
  • Safety Coalition Joined the 90-Day Trucking Apprenticeship Challenge
  • WHD Launched Retaliation Webpage
  • USDOL Signed MOU to Report to USDOJ Employers Pursuing “No-Poach” Recruitment Agreements And/Or Conspiring to Fix Wages
  • Biden Proposal to Update Davis-Bacon Is Designed To Increase Prevailing Wages for Workers on Public Construction Projects
  • President Biden Signed Federal Bi-Partisan FY2022 Omnibus Budget Bill Dissing Federal Civil Rights Agencies
  • He’s Back! Popular OFCCP Regional Director Sam Maiden Returns, Now As The RD for the Mid-Atlantic Region (Philadelphia)
  • Old, But Important, News We Missed. Biden Extended the COVID-19 Pandemic National State of Emergency Impacting Labor Laws
OFCCP Week In Review: May 9, 2022

OFCCP Week In Review: January 4, 2022

by | Jan 4, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit Issued Two-Page Order Denying Biden Administration’s Request to Lift Nationwide Injunction Against Federal Contractor/Subcontractor Vaccine Mandate
  • USDOL Offers a Free Virtual Seminar to Help Covered Federal Contractors/Subcontractors Comply with the New $15 Minimum Wage Rule
  • Veterans’ Employment and Training Service to Hold Next Open Virtual Meeting of ACVETEO to Review Veterans hiring in 2021, Outreach for 2022 and Answer Employer Questions re Best Practices to Hire Veterans
  • Now is Your Chance! NLRB Seeks Employer Input as to Its Independent-Contractor Definition
  • CMS Issued Guidance on the Implementation of its Interim Final Rule for Healthcare Staff Vaccination Requirements Still in Force in the 25 States Not Subject to Injunction
  • 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Reporting Portal to Open April 12, 2022, with a May 17, 2022, Last-Day-To-File Date. ALSO: 2019/2020 EEO-1 Filing Portal Closed
  • OSHA Seeks Comment Regarding Extending the Recordkeeping Requirements its Healthcare ETS Imposes as Issued June 21, 2021, and Withdrew the Substantive Portions of its Healthcare ETS
  • NLRB Follows Previous Court Ruling in Rejecting Argument that Appointment of NLRB General Counsel was Improper and Should Invalidate Any General Counsel Action Against Employers
  • U.S. District Courts Enjoin Vaccine and Masking Mandate HHS Sought to Impose on Teachers and Students Participating in Federal “Head Start” Programs with Possible Legal Implications for Other Private Sector Vaccination Mandates
  • URGENT! Today is the Last Day to Submit Comments to OSHA re the Recordkeeping Requirements of its Proposed OSHA ETS
OFCCP Week In Review: May 3, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: May 3, 2021

by | May 3, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • The Oscars Made History – New Accessibility Standards Are Here!
  • OFCCP Director Sets The Stage For What’s To Come: CSALS and OFCCP Audit Selection Methodology to Continue
  • OFCCP Announced A New Course – But You May Want To Wait
  • Confusion Surrounding the White House Task Force on Unionizing
  • Women in Apprenticeships and Nontraditional Occupations Grant Program
  • Is The Cost Of 13 Keystrokes An Accurate “Burden” Of The Uniformed Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures?
  • Federal Contractors Beware – New Minimum Wage Coming
  • Connections Between COVID-19 and Civil Rights Examined
  • OSHA Turned 50!
  • EARN Seeks to Ask Individuals with Disabilities What Might Influence Them to Self-Identify
  • Tip Rule Continues to Evolve
  • Reminder: Essential Workers – Essential Protections Training Initiative
  • Military Spouse Appreciation Day Event
OFCCP Week In Review: May 3, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: April 19, 2021

by | Apr 19, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • First-Ever Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Appointed at the Department of State
  • Employers Beware – Liquidated Damages Under FLSA Have Returned
  • Paycheck Fairness Act Passed House
  • Employer Resources for Individuals with Post-COVID Conditions
  • Upcoming OFCCP Event: Construction Compliance Checks
OFCCP Week In Review: May 3, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: March 29, 2021

by | Mar 29, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • New Secretary of Labor Confirmed Unanimously By Democrats
  • EEOC Reaffirms Commitment to Protect Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
  • USDOL To Create Registered Apprenticeship Technical Assistance Centers Of Excellence
  • Congressional Democrats Introduce Resolutions to Rescind the EEOC’s Final Rule Requiring Transparency to Employers in Conciliation of Charges
  • Improving Disability Employment Outcomes–Finale Conversation of the DE Talk Podcast Released
  • Recognition of Equal Pay Day
  • Spoiler Alert: Religious Exemption Changes For Federal Contractors On The Horizon
  • National Medal of Honor Day
  • The Tip Rule Saga Continues…Comment Now!
  • Biden Announces Intent to Nominate Jocelyn Samuels for 5-year Term as EEOC Commissioner
  • New Solicitor of USDOL in the Pipeline
  • EEO-1 Data Collection Portal To Open April 26, 2021