Biden Wins His Third Vaccination Mandate Case, But Loses the First Round of the Federal Contractor/Subcontractor Vaccination Mandate Fight to a Nationwide Injunction: Biden 3; Challengers 5
849 HIRE Vets Medallion Recipients Officially Documented
E-Verify Updated The User Profile For Easier Navigation
USDOL Announced Global Partnership Initiative For Labor Organizing and Worker Rights
How Should the NLRB Determine The Appropriateness Of A Petitioned-for Bargaining Unit?
USDOL and USDOJ Renew MOU To Ensure Military Service Members’ Employment Rights
What’s A Federal Government Contractor/Subcontractor To Do About The Vaccine Mandate?
Fall Regulatory Agenda Released – Federal Subcontractors – BEWARE!
Thought Affirmative Action Plans Were a Cumbersome Part of Being a Federal Government Contractor? Let’s Talk Sustainability.
Decision Striking Down the Federal Contractor/Subcontractor Vaccine Mandate Portends Difficulty for OFCCP to Enforce its AAP Certification Portal
OFCCP’s AAP Verification Interface Gets Set to Open – Contractors Must Now Decide Whether to Voluntarily Comply with OFCCP’s Unenforceable “Requirement” Since the Agency Has Now “Thrown Down Its Gauntlet”
Big Budget Bill Busts Again: Federal Government Funded Through Only February 18, 2022
International Day of Persons with a Disability Sparks Global Movement
Amid a Strong Economy, Another Disappointing Monthly Jobs Report as Long-Term Unemployment Remains 1.1 Million Higher Than February 2020
Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Executive Order Now Officially EO 14055
New $15.00 Minimum Wage Rule for SOME Employees of Federal Contractors by January 30, 2022 is a Complex Web of Broadened Inclusions and Technical Exclusions
USDOL Seeks Apprenticeship Ambassadors & Public Discussion on Diversity
Renewed Call for Transgender Rights and Dignity as Deaths Due to Protected Status Rise to Deadliest Year on Record
Private Employers Forced to Remain on Their Toes as Changes to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates are Occurring Daily/OSHA Suspended Its Own Emergency Temporary Standard
A White House in Disarray Realizes Its Error in Federal Contractor Vaccination and Mask Mandate: Now Attempts “Hail Mary Pass” to OMB to Save It
National Labor Exchange Hits 4 Million Daily Job Postings While NASWA Secures Funds to Mine the Data
The “She-cession” – What Is It and How Do We Combat It?
NLRB Counsel Seeks To Protect Immigrant Workers Rights
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Blasted and Enjoined the OSHA ETS in a Harsh Order; The List of Lawsuits Challenging Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates Continues to Grow
EARN Website Gets A Redesign
OFCCP Published Its NPRM to Rescind the Trump Religious Discrimination Exemption Rule, As Predicted Last Week
Six New Countries Eligible For H-2 Visa Programs
Federal Contractor Guidance Updated to Include New Fully Vaccinated Deadline
NILG Comments On The Collection Of Pay Data
Comment Now On The Issuance of “Consequential Damages” To Employees Per The NLRB
NLRB, EEOC, and USDOL Join Forces To Use Their “Bully Pulpits” to Combat Workplace Retaliation: No Substantive Requirements Planned
USVETS Honors 849 Companies With 2021 Hire Vets Medallion Awards!
Honoring Our Military Veterans
USDOL Seeks to Reverse Yet Another Trump Rule: Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs Now on the Chopping Block: Ping-Pong
The Final, Final, This Time We Mean It Deadline For EEO-1 Survey is November 15th
New Guidance for Federal Government Contractors on Vaccine Mandate Continues to Stretch Its Reach
NLRB Back On Average With $56 Million Collected in Fiscal Year 2021
Watch The 2021 HIRE Vets Medallion Award Ceremony!
It’s National Native American Heritage Month!
The White House Issued a Press Release Relaxing the December 8, 2021 Employee Vaccination or Termination “Requirement” Applicable to Federal Contractors and Subcontractors to January 4, 2022
OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines or Testing/Masks Catches Federal Contractors in a Bind by Exempting Them from the More Generous Exceptions to the OSHA ETS
DEAMcon22 Agenda is Here!! Pack Your Bags For Carlsbad, California
Comment Now on the Continuation of Videoconferencing In NLRB Hearings
Monthly Job Growth For October Currently Slightly Below Yearly Average
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Jumped into the Vaccine Mandate Action with its Own Interim Final Rule Covering 17 Million Medicare/Medicaid Provider Employees
It Took Less Than 24 Hours: U.S. Fifth Circuit Strikes Down OSHA ETS Citing “grve statutory and constitutional issues”
OFCCP Published its Draft Proposal to Rescind the Trump OFCCP Religious Exemption Rule, and Not Replace It
Comment Now on the Remote Document Examination Process for the I-9 Form
No Surprise: EEO-1 Survey Portal Still Open
Employers Must Close Cases To Complete the E-Verify Process
Listen In: The Role of Employers In Employee Mental Health
Another OFCCP Policy Reversal in The Making as Agency Nears Rescission of its Rule Outlining Executive Order 11246’s Religious Exemption for Federal Contractors
EEOC Launched Its Artificial Intelligence Initiative Commissioner Sonderling Has Long Championed And Forewarned
Back-to-the-Future! USDOL Published Final Rule Reinstating “80-20” Policy for Minimum Wages Owed Tipped Employees and Rescinding the Remainder of the Trump Final Rule
It Starts: Red State Lawsuits Busting Out Big to Stop Biden Vaccination Mandate Seeking to Require Federal Government Contractors/Subcontractors to Fire Unvaxxed Employees
Trump Administration’s Joint Employer Rule Officially Dead
Court Exalts SOME Rights of Private For-Profit Companies Over SOME LGBTQ+ Rights in Religious Freedom Treatise in Latest Collision of Rights Case Decision
Biden Clipped ICE’s Wings: Homeland Security Memo Redirected Enforcement Efforts Towards “Unscrupulous Employers” and Away From Illegal Aliens…and Ends Mass Raids of Employer Facilities
EEOC Commissioner Sonderling Hit a Home Run Discussing All Things EEOC With DirectEmployers’ Members
EEOC Updated Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccinations
NLRB Median Age of Pending Cases Continues Downward Trend
