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OFCCP Week In Review: July 18, 2022
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Reported That Its Second Comment Period For Continued Use of Form I-9 Is Still Open
- NLRB Announced 2021 Update To Its “Outline of Law & Procedure In Representation Cases”
- EEOC Updated 15 Items In Its Covid-19 Technical Assistance Guidance, Adding A New Standard For Employers Which Test Employees For the Virus
- While OFCCP Slipped Into the Bottom Quartile, The EEOC Climbed Into The Top 30% In The 2021 Best Places To Work Scores In The Federal Government
- USDOL Agencies Announced They Are Seeking Comments From Employers Regarding Long-Covid Workplace Challenges
- Wage & Hour Division Published Its Long Expected Proposed Rule on “Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts”
- The NLRB Reported Union Election Petitions Are Up 58% Through Q3, Exceeding Already All FY21 Petitions Filed
- Jury Awards Former Southwest Flight Attendant >$5M In Abortion Views Bias Suit
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: July 11, 2022
- USDOL Secretary Used Prior Secretary Scalia’s Order 01-2020 To Issue A Final Ruling Ordering Convergys to Comply With OFCCP Document Demands
- EEOC Settled Claims That Medical Practice Violated GINA By Collecting COVID-19 Test Results Of Employees’ Family Members
- OFCCP Submitted To OMB Its Final Rule To Rescind Trump-Era Religious Exemption, Publication Likely Prior To Mid-terms
- E-Verify Will End This Week The Extended Timeframes For Employees To Visit SSA To Resolve Mismatches
- OFCCP Walked Back Part Of Its Extension Of Its AAP Verification Portal “Deadline”
- Economy Added 372,000 Jobs in June, BLS Reported as Biden Administration Touts “Full Recovery” To Pre-Pandemic Numbers
- President Biden Issued Executive Order On “Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services”
OFCCP Quietly Extended the AAP Verification Deadline Following Discovery of Faux Pas
As many Bloggers have trumpeted in recent weeks, last Thursday, June 30 was OFCCP’s self-proclaimed “deadline” for covered federal Government contractors and “subcontractors” to “certify” their compliance with OFCCP’s Affirmative Action Program requirements. Well,...
OFCCP Week In Review: July 5, 2022
- 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)
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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”
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 Contractor...
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