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OFCCP Week In Review: April 11, 2022
- This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
- The Iowa Supreme Court Gives A Male Transgender Employee The Win On The Restroom Dispute and On Gender Reassignment Surgery
- The DUNS Number is Out – Federal Contractors Must Secure a New “Unique Entity Identifier”
- EEOC To Shift to Democrat Majority in July
- DOJ Provided Opioid-Specific ADA Guidance
- Update Your Affirmative Action Programs – the VEVRAA Hiring Benchmark Dropped to 5.5%
- NLRB Reported 57% Increase in Union Representation Petitions Since October 2021
- NLRB Counsel Announced Intent to Urge the Board That “Captive-Audience” Anti-Union Meetings for Employees Are Unlawful
- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reinstated Biden Administration Vaccine Mandate for Federal Civilian Employees: Federal Courts Lacked Jurisdiction
- New Interpretation Confirms That WIOA’s Discrimination Prohibition “Based On Sex” Includes Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity
OFCCP Released The “Wrecking Ball” On Most Of The Remaining Trump Administration Policies and Procedures Of Significance
In a new Directive titled “Effective Compliance Evaluations and Enforcement" (DIR 2022-02) OFCCP announced it had withdrawn what the Trump OFCCP Director had called his “four pillars” of Agency policy and procedure. The “pillars” were known by the acronym “CERT.”...
OFCCP FY 2023 Budget Request Seeks A Lot Of Money And Lays Out A Very Comprehensive And Ambitious Internal Rebuilding Program
But There Are Several Disconcerting Initiatives Of Concern To Contractors OFCCP’s “FY 2023 Congressional Budget Justification” seeks $147,051,000 and hopes to increase its employee headcount by 208 from 420 to 628 employees. This is close to the 188-employee headcount...
OFCCP Week In Review: April 4, 2022
- OFCCP FY 2023 Budget Request Seeks A Lot Of Money And Lays Out A Very Comprehensive And Ambitious Internal Rebuilding Program
- EEOC Seeks Big FY 2023 Budget Increase Despite Declining Workload Numbers Also Released Today in New Performance Report
- Cast Your Vote And Do Your Outreach – American Job Centers Add Voting
- EEOC Presented New Features and Improvements to the EEO-1 Survey Filing System
- USDOL Public Service Announcement: “Mental Health at Work: What Can I Do?”
- Comment Now on Revisions to the I-9 Form
- Comment on “Notice of Employee Rights under National Labor Relations Act Complaint Process” (this is the so-called “anti-Beck notice”)
- OFCCP Contractor Portal Opened – New Resources Available
- Transgender Day of Visibility Sees Swooping Efforts Across the Federal Government to Recognize and Support the Transgender Community
- EEOC to Add Non-Binary Gender Option to Discrimination Charge Intake Process
- OFCCP Released The “Wrecking Ball” On Most Of The Remaining Trump Administration Policies and Procedures Of Significance
- E-Verify Records Disposal Date Extended to May 6, 2022
- March’s “New Jobs Filled Employment Numbers” Increased, But Those Dropping Out of The Workforce Provided An Anemic “Jobs Gains” Month
- Only 10% Of Those Working In U.S. Teleworked In March Because Of The COVID-19 Pandemic
- BLS Reports Show Educational Attainment Level Correlated to Higher Unemployment
OFCCP’s Proposed NPRM Walks Backwards Promising Less Transparency in Audits and Unknown, But Different (to come), Evidentiary Standards in Discrimination Investigations
Contractors Will Not Like OFCCP’s Assault on Their Rights or OFCCP Interpretations of Title VII Law Requirements Changing Like the Weather But This Will Happen as OFCCP Continues Its New March to be a Highly Politicized Federal Agency Like the NLRB with Enforcement...
Part 2: New OFCCP Directive on “Pay Equity Audits” Raises More Questions Than it Answers
Missed part one of this series focusing on the OFCCPs new pay equity audits?Catch up on part one of the series which contains the discussion of the first three “OFCCP Confusions.”Directive Also Acknowledges That “Occupation Segregation,” Not Pay Discrimination Alone,...
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
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