OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

by | Dec 20, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
  • When is COVID-19 A Disability Under the ADA? EEOC Expands Technical Assistance Guide
  • Today’s Youth = Tomorrow’s Workforce, How do We Cultivate At-Risk Talent?
  • Time Extended To Comment On “Consequential Damages” To Employees Per The NLRB
  • Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Flexibility Extended Through April 2022
  • VETS Turns 40!
  • Just In Time To Save Christmas – A Joint Resolution To Increase The Debt Limit By $2.5 Trillion
  • This Week’s Surprising Vaccination Mandate Case Decisions
  • New Resource: How To Handle Captioning & ASL Requests For Virtual Meetings
  • Fair Chance Act – “Ban The Box” – Effective Today as to Federal Contractors!
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: December 13, 2021

by | Dec 13, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • 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.
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: December 6, 2021

by | Dec 6, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • Two Rapidly Approaching Vaccine Mandate Public Comment Periods Employers and Federal Contractors Should Note
  • Vaccine Mandate Litigation Recap: Vaccine Challengers 4; Biden 0
  • 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
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: November 22, 2021

by | Nov 22, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • 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?
  • EEOC’s Annual Financial Report Shows Year-Over-Year Consistency
  • USDOL, NLRB, and EEOC Discuss Ending Retaliation in The Workplace
  • EEOC’s COVID-19 Technical Assistance Guide Updated to Include Retaliation Information
  • New Executive Order Looks to Keep Employees Working When Federal Contracts Change Hands
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: November 15, 2021

by | Nov 15, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • 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
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

by | Nov 8, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • 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
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: November 1, 2021

by | Nov 1, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • EEOC Tackles COVID Religious Accommodation FAQs
  • 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
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: October 25, 2021

by | Oct 25, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • Little Known Section 18(b) of OSHA Will Now Drive Many States to File Lawsuits to Stop the OSHA COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate They Do Not Want
  • VETS Seeks Partners For Employment Navigator Pilot Program
  • New Vaccine FAQs For Federal Contractors
  • White House Issued National Strategy on Gender Equity & Equality, Includes Priority to Address Wage Gap
  • EEOC Spotlights Disability Discrimination Achievements
  • EEO-1 Report Filing Deadline – TODAY!
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: October 18, 2021

by | Oct 18, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • Vaccine Mandate Moves to White House for Review
  • 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