by DE Compliance News Apr 25, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
This Week’s Vaccination Injunction Puzzle at a Glance
EEOC and OFCCP to Host Second HIRE Initiative Roundtable
Director Yang Told the DirectEmployers Annual Meeting Audience That Subgroup Goals & Non-Binary Gender Reporting Are On OFCCP’s Agenda
EEOC Commissioner Sonderling Told DirectEmployers Annual Meeting Attendees The EEO-1 Component 2 Survey Will Soon Return
by DE Compliance News Apr 18, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
Action Item: Time to File EEO-1 Survey
EEOC & OFCCP to Discuss Screening Out Jobseekers with Employment Gaps
Federal Government Agencies Implement Equity Action Plans
Wage & Hour Enforcement Tops USDOL Equity Action Plan
EEOC Seeks Public Input on its Equity Action Plan
by DE Compliance News Apr 11, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Apr 4, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Mar 28, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Mar 21, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Mar 14, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Mar 7, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Feb 28, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
by DE Compliance News Feb 21, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)
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
