In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review (WIR), John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the joint resolution passed by the U.S. Senate killing the FAR Council’s rule implementing Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces Executive Order; SCOTUS declines to hear Grimm transgender bathroom case; Trump sends Acosta USDOL Secretary nomination to the U.S. Senate; and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals holds that Title VII does not protect against sexual orientation, while still protecting “gender non-conformity”.
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review (WIR), John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss OFCCP’s first administrative complaint seeking to protect sexual orientation; 800 CSALs sent to federal contractors; Trump political nominees began moving into the labor positions; former OFCCP compensation program architect admits no widespread pay discrimination; and U.S. Department of Education withdrew the Obama Administration’s Title IX transgender bathroom use guidance.
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review (WIR), John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the many Senate confirmations within the Veterans Administration and the Office of Management and Budgets, as well as who’s “out” and who’s “in” to be the incoming Secretary of Labor.
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In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review, John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the OMB’s renewed self-identification form; Victoria Lipnic appointed to Chair of EEOC; White House Press Office indicates Trump Administration will leave Obama LGBTQ Executive Order intact; Andrew Puzder’s Senate confirmation hearing delayed indefinitely; 10th Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch nominated to U.S. Supreme Court; Senate Judiciary Committee sends Senator Sessions’ nomination to be Attorney General to Senate for full vote; and end of the “Blacklisting Rule” now goes to Senate for a final vote.
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review, John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss Trump’s frozen new regulations, pending review; notice published by the Heritage Foundation in July 2016 proposing to eliminate OFCCP; Money Magazine reported that the USDOJ Division of Civil Rights may be on the budget chopping block; and Trump named EEOC Commissioner Victoria A. Lipnic acting Chair of the Commission.
The OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox and Candee Chambers. Week of January 2, 2017: Senate Set the Following Confirmation Hearings for Trump...
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review, John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the significance of November 3, 2016 being the mid-point between the beginning of OFCCP’s 5-year so-called TRICARE subcontractor enforcement “Moratorium”–which began May 7, 2014 and will end on May 7, 2019.
In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review, John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the recent news in the federal contractor space, including the recent rise of minimum wage for federal contractors, the “mid-point” timeframe for “Subpart C” and the GAO’s recent critical report of the OFCCP’s enforcement program.
The OFCCP’s definition of “similarly situated” for the purposes of evaluating compensation differences in its new sex discrimination regulations is so broad that it provides little guidance for federal contractors and goes beyond Title VII standards, two attorneys who handle OFCCP compliance matters recently told Employment Law Daily. The final rule, published in the Federal Register on June 15, 2016 (81 FR 39108-39169), replaces the guidelines at 41 CFR Part 60-20 with new sex discrimination regulations. The regulations, which implement the prohibition against sex discrimination contained in Executive Order (EO) 11246, took effect on August 15, 2016. Section 60–20.4(a) of the new regulations prohibits contractors from paying “different compensation to similarly situated employees on the basis of sex.” But the standard to which the OFCCP will hold contractors in assessing exactly which employees are “similarly situated” is far from clear, the attorneys stated.
