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OFCCP Week In Review: September 6, 2022
- First Federal Appellate Court Rules That Gender Dysphoria May Qualify as a Disability Under The ADA
- White House Announced Comment Opportunity on Federal LGBTQI+ Data Collections
- Another Federal Court Enforced The Religious Freedom Restoration Act To Insulate Religious Employers From Transgender Claims
- Healthcare Unions Fail To Convince The DC Circuit To Force OSHA To Adopt A Permanent Covid-19 Rule To Protect Healthcare Workers
- Employer Bans on Union Apparel in The Workplace Unlawful, Absent Special Circumstances
- OMB Will Begin Virtual Listening Sessions To Prepare To Overhaul Federal Data Collections of Race and Ethnicity Information
- Tips & Tricks to Master “Deep Dredge” OFCCP Audits
- Federal Contractors Still Need Not Require Their Employees to Vaccinate Says White House Safer Federal Workforce Task Force
- U.S. Workforce Slips Backwards: More Jobs Lost Than Gained in August
- *New* BLS Now Publishing Monthly Data for Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders and People of Two or More Races
- US GSA Published Final Rule Allowing Union Organizers To Solicit Federal Contractor Employees in GSA-Controlled Buildings
- In Brief
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: August 29, 2022
- New Portal Gives Contractors Another Tool To Submit Objections To EEO-1 Component 1 Data FOIA Disclosure
- GAO Report Concluded Programs for Workers Displaced by Automation Should Focus on Skills for In-Demand Jobs
- VETS’ Employment Navigator Pilot Program Added Nine More Partners
- No Love Lost at the EEOC: Two Republican Commissioners Write a WSJ Op-Ed: “An Administrative Power Grab at the EEOC” Detailing The Chair’s Behind-The-Scenes Political Shenanigans
- OFCCP Announced Via E-Mail and FAQ that It Demands Colleges and Universities “Certify” their AAPs and to Register to Do So Through a New Portal for Institutions of Higher Learning
- OFCCP Webinar Announced Yet Another Document Delivery Portal: This Time for Construction Contractors
- Federal Appellate Court Narrowed An Injunction Freezing The Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate To Only States And Parties In The Litigation
- EEO-1 Requester For Federal Contractor EEO-1 Consolidated Component 1 Data Is Not Sure What To Do With The Data Since He Does Not Have It Yet, But He Generally Wants To Report On Federal Contractor Diversity
- In Brief
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
Title VII Will Stop OFCCP “Cold in Its Tracks” From Releasing EEO-1 Component 2 Pay and Hours Worked Data: The “Abandoned Baby on The Porch” Legal Problem
First, What Happened? OFCCP’s Thursday public e-mail “Notice providing contractors an opportunity to object to the release of EEO-1 reports requested under FOIA” set off a flurry of overnight “mirror report” Blogs reporting OFCCP’s broadly disseminated e-mail Notice....
OFCCP Week In Review: August 22, 2022
- Citing an Anticipated Increase In IRS Jobs, Senator Rick Scott Wrote An Astonishing Open Letter Discouraging Job Seekers From Applying
- FAR Council Proposed A Rule Mandating Unions (“PLAs”) On Large Federal Construction Projects
- USDHS ICE Issued A Proposal to Later (Perhaps?) Create Proposed Permanent Remote Form I-9 Documentation Procedures
- USDOL Women’s Bureau Webinar Presented Soft HR Advice to Motivate Discussion Around Pay Equity Issues
- Title VII Will Stop OFCCP “Cold in Its Tracks” From Releasing EEO-1 Component 2 Pay and Hours Worked Data: The “Abandoned Baby on The Porch” Legal Problem
- OFCCP Walks Back Its Earlier “Pay Equity” Directive but Now Tries to Impose An “Analysis of Compensation” on Federal Contractors Without Rulemaking
- Federal Judge Cites First Amendment to Enjoin Florida’s New Law Barring Employers from Teaching Critical Race Theory
- White House Memo Accentuated Importance of Federal Zero Trust Security and IT Modernization Goals
- USDOL Created the “ApprenticeshipUSA” Brand and Announced the Start of An Online Dialogue
- USDOL WHD Reminded Stakeholders About Upcoming, Free Live Q&A Sessions on Prevailing Wage Compliance
- DOL Revealed Joint Message by Nine Federal Agencies to State & Local Governments on Competitive Integrated Employment for Workers with Disabilities
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
Senators Warren and Luján Urged USDOJ To Use Dormant Powers to Suspend & Debar Corporate “Criminals” From Federal Contracts
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) sent an unusually strongly worded letter to top U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials urging them to use the Department’s authority to ban from government contracting those corporations which fail to...
OFCCP Week In Review: August 15, 2022
- Senators Warren and Luján Urged USDOJ To Use Dormant Powers to Suspend & Debar Corporate “Criminals” From Federal Contracts
- USDOL Published A Notice Seeking Public Comment On Multiple Studies Of USDOL-Funded Programs
- USDOL’s ODEP Announced a Twitter Chat And Online Dialogue Regarding The National Apprenticeship System
- ODEP Promoted Its PIA New Apprenticeship EEO Toolkit
- USDOL Announced That Tuskegee University Will Host Department’s HBCU Southeast Hiring Summit
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: August 8, 2022
- ODEP Published Notice Seeking Public Comments on Four-Year Study to Support Partnership on Inclusive Apprenticeship
- EEOC Announced Public Meeting in Buffalo to Focus On “Racial and Economic Justice”
- In Webinar Discussing Its Pay Data Study NASEM Expert Panel Noted Flawed Design, Data Problems, and Recommendations
- The Federal Labor Relations Authority Sued the EEOC For Allegedly Failing to Sufficiently Bargain With its Employees When Ordering Them Back to Work at The Office
- Noting State Law Developments, President Biden Issued Second Post-Dobbs E.O. On “Securing Access to Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services”
- HHS Announced Two New Reports on COVID Services & Support and Research Developments
- Economy Added 528,000 Jobs in July, Unemployment Rate Dropped to Pre-Pandemic Level of 3.5%
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: August 1, 2022
- Commissioners Dhillon & Lucas Reported EEOC Is Denying FOIA Requests On Claims Sent To Arbitration Rather Than Litigation
- Federal Judge in Ohio Blocked Air Forces’ Vax Requirement Nationwide
- OFCCP Issued First Official Statement After Weeks of Confusion On Its AAP Portal “Deadline”
- National Academy of Sciences Released Its Anticipated Pay Data Study; EEOC Commissioners Respond With Notably Different Takes
- HHS, DOL, And Treasury Department Issued Guidance Regarding Birth Control Coverage Under the ACA
- DOL WHD Added New Best Practices Guidance on Child Labor for Employers
- DC Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses NLRB Win for Browning-Ferris in Long-Running Joint-Employer Litigation Slugfest: No New Legal Test Emerges…Yet
- In Brief
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: July 25, 2022
- Federal District Court Judge In Tennessee Blocked Enforcement Of Controversial EEOC & DOE Guidance Documents On Bostock
- AbilityOne Commission Published Final Rule Barring Nonprofits From Subminimum Pay On Its Contracts
- OFCCP Enforcement Statistics Continue To Spiral Down To New Modern Lows
- Wage And Hour Division Announced 60-day Comment Period On Its Unchanged Paid Sick Leave Recordkeeping Requirements For Federal Contractors
- Census Bureau announced ACS 1-year estimates will be released on September 15, 2022
- NLRB and FTC Signed New Partnership Agreement To Focus on “Anticompetitive and Unfair Labor Practices”
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
EEOC Updated 15 Items In Its Covid-19 Technical Assistance Guidance, Adding A New Standard For Employers Which Test Employees For the Virus
On Tuesday, the EEOC once again updated its COVID-19 technical assistance Guidance, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws,” adding updates for 15 items. While the Guidance does not have the force and effect of...
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