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OFCCP Week In Review: March 28, 2022
- Part 2: New OFCCP Directive on “Pay Equity Audits” Raises More Questions Than it Answers
- E-Verify Released New Features
- OFCCP’s Proposed NPRM Walks Backwards Promising Less Transparency in Audits and Unknown, But Different (to come), Evidentiary Standards in Discrimination Investigations
- CA Pay Data Reports Show No Surprises and Do not Tell us Much
- New Resources Available for EEO-1 Filers
- Lilly Ledbetter Shared Her Powerful and History-Making Story
- SCOTUS Overturns 5th Circuit, Stays U.S. District Court Injunction of DoD COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate
Part 1: New OFCCP Directive on “Pay Equity Audits” Raises More Questions Than it Answers
Directive Also Acknowledges That “Occupation Segregation,” Not Pay Discrimination Alone, is a “driver of persistent pay disparities” Important: This Blog identifies four “Confusions” (and four Resolutions of those Confusions) springing from OFCCP’s new Compensation...
OFCCP Week In Review: March 21, 2022
- A Federal Court in Texas Shot Down the Biden FLSA Independent Contractor Rule & Reinstated the Trump Rule
- Federal Government Exploring Non-Binary Data Collection
- Manager Alert: EEOC Slips in an Unsanctioned New “Law” on So-Called “Intersectional Discrimination” Under Guise of New Caretaker Discrimination Guidance
- New OFCCP Directive on “Pay Equity Audits” Raises More Questions Than it Answers
- Free Prevailing Wage Seminars for Federal Contractors
- OMB Finally Has a Director in A First for African Americans
- OFCCP to Host Instructional Webinar on Contractor Portal Certification Opening – March 31st
- Expired Documents No Longer Acceptable for I-9 Form
- The Comment Deadline on USDOL’s Davis-Bacon Act Proposed Rules Change Proposals is Now Set for May 17, 2022
- EARN Updated Its Federal Contractor Resource Page
- Registered Apprenticeships for Incarcerated Individuals Topped National Dialogue Ideas
- New Guidance on Website Accessibility Under the ADA
OFCCP Week In Review: March 14, 2022
- 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: March 7, 2022
- This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
- Fifth Circuit Refused to Lift the Lower Court Injunction Which Stopped the Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate as to 35 Naval Combatants
- The 90-Day Trucking Apprenticeship Challenge Nears Completion as the Nation’s Largest Trucking Industry Association Joins the Cause
- USDOL Announced $45M in Grant Funding to Expand Equitable Reskilling & Job Training
- Compensation, Personal Safety, and Racial/Gender Inequalities Addressed in the Driving Good Jobs Initiative
- USDA Seeks To Criminalize Federal Contractor Non-Compliance With Federal Labor Laws
- It was A Big Jobs Gains Month As Workers Begin To End Their Two-Year Sabbatical and Return To Their Jobs. Minority Jobs Gains Noticeable
- New NASWA and DE NLx Research Hub Will Help Employers Recruit, Hire and Train U.S. Workers
OFCCP Week In Review: February 28, 2022
- This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
- A Missing EEO is the Law Notice Will Now Cost An Employer $610 Per Violation
- $113 Million Now Available Through The Apprenticeship Building America Grant Program
- Cornell & USDOL’s Women’s Bureau Kicked off the “Equity in Focus” Series with a Powerful Panel Tackling “Job Creation for a Just Society”
- Unemployment Rate for Individuals with a Disability Decreased in 2021, However, Remains Higher than 2019 Rate
OFCCP Week In Review: February 21, 2022
- This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
- It is a “One Ticket, One Ride” Win for Only the Outdoorsy People as the Biden Minimum Wage Order Faces First Litigation Defeat
- A Third “Stop Gap” Continuing Resolution Keeps the Federal Government Alive through March 11th
- Upcoming Event | DE Masterclass Employment Law Roundtable Tackles Retaliation: The Rising Centerpiece of Civil Rights Enforcement
OFCCP Week In Review: February 14, 2022
- This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
- White House to Be A “Model Employer” for Empowering Employees to Unionize
- BLS Seeks to Increase Data Set for Occupational Requirements Survey – Comment Portal Open
- OFCCP Published How-To Videos and Registration Tips for New Contractor Portal
- Fifth Circuit Refuses to Lift Nationwide Injunction of Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate Before Oral Argument on Substantive Merits of the Mandate
- Comment Now on Functional Affirmative Action Program Directive Updates
- NLRB Looks to Strengthen Ties with Other Federal Enforcement Agencies
- Eight States Bring Two Suits Seeking to Enjoin $15/Hour Minimum Wage for Employees of Federal Contractors & Subcontractors
- The #MeToo Movement Continues to Alter the Federal Employment Law Landscape, as Private Employers Now Face Changes to the Scope of Employment Arbitration Agreements
- In Memoriam
OFCCP Week In Review: February 7, 2022
- This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance: No Changes As Legal Frenzy Dies Down…for the Moment
- HIRE Vets Medallion Award Application Window is Now Open!
- No Spoiler Alert Here – OFCCP Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Not to Have a Significant Economic Impact
- Employers & Job Seekers Beware – Scammers Are Exploiting Security Weaknesses on Some Job Recruitment Websites
- OFCCP Contractor Portal Opened for Registration – See Rules of Behavior to Enter
- NLRB Continues Push to Support Union Organizing
- CA Pay Data Reporting Portal is Also Open!
- WHD to Hire 100 Investigators to Support Compliance Efforts
- Updated Procedures Announced for Third-Party EEO-1 Survey Filers
- Biden Issued an Executive Order Unionizing All Large Construction Contracts
- January 2022 Employment Situation – Finally, a Big Jobs Month, but Total Jobs Picture Still Very Mixed!
- Update on USDOL’s “Good Jobs” Initiative
Biden Administration Takes Its Foot Off The Gas on Employment Civil Rights Enforcement: OFCCP Joins EEOC in Nosedive in Critical Performance Metrics During Biden’s First Year
What Federal Contractors May Expect For The Remainder of FY 2022 No one would have ever predicted it a year ago or did predict that the OFCCP and the EEOC (see last week’s WIR) would actually go backwards and perform below the level of the Trump Administration....
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