OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 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: November 8, 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: November 8, 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: November 8, 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
OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: October 11, 2021

by | Oct 11, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • OFCCP Alleges Individuals Classified as “Two or More Races” are Protected From Discrimination as a New “Protected Class”
  • OFCCP Spotlights Its Disability Inclusion Resources
  • Construction Compliance Course Released in The Online OFCCP Contractor Compliance Institute
  • Moving Along – Pending Piece of Tip Rule Takes Its Last Dance
  • E-Verify Now Offering Webinars Eligible for Professional Development Credits!
  • September’s Employment Situation – Another Disappointing Jobs Creation Month and More Americans Dropping Out to Expand the Long-Term Unemployed List
  • Artificial Intelligence in The Workforce – Utopia or Legal Landmine?
  • Looking Ahead: Celebrate NDEAM 2021 And The 20th Anniversary Of the Office of Disability Employment Policy
OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: October 4, 2021

by | Oct 4, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • Real-Time Labor Market Information Available Through National Labor Exchange (NLx)
  • Navigating COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate: Employer vs. Employee Rights
  • Open Virtual Meeting on Veteran Employment & Employer Outreach
  • NLRB Counsel Continues to Trailblaze – This Time for Student-Athletes
  • Another $68 Million Awarded for Job Seeker Assistance
  • NASWA Announced Its 2021-2022 Board of Directors
  • FAR Council Required Two Clauses to Be Embedded in Federal Contracts Seeking to “Require” Compliance with Any and All Task Force “Guidances” Re COVID-19 Vaccinations or Testing
  • Government Fiscal Year Kicks Off In Status Quo
  • It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month!
OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: September 27, 2021

by | Sep 27, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • It Starts: Again. Texas Sued the EEOC Over Its Workplace Transgender Bathroom Guidance
  • Joint-Employer Rescission Rule Pushed Back Due To Technicality
  • Advisory Committee On Apprenticeships Is Now Staffed and Is Hosting a Public Meeting
  • Nine Organizations Identified in the Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot to Assist Transitioning Service Members & Spouses
  • USDOL Delayed Returning Its Employees To Work In The Office: Teleworking To Remain Until The Start of Calendar 2022
  • A New Tip Rule Provides More Employee-Friendly Provisions
  • The Deadline for the White House Gender Policy Council Strategy Report to The President Has Passed Without Announcement
  • By Executive Fiat, White House Task Force Suddenly Extended a COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate to Include ALL Employees of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors
OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: September 20, 2021

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

  • GAO Seeks to Improve Veterans Justice Outreach Program to Help Veterans and Employers
  • A Must Watch Short Video on Writing Good (Inclusive) Job Descriptions
  • Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Increase on The Horizon
  • AAP Administrators — Budget (A LOT) Of Time for Census Re-Mapping
  • The Controversial New NLRB General Counsel Has Now Extended Her Push for New Forms of Damages in NLRB Actions to Include Settlement Negotiations, and Not Just NLRB Adjudications
  • Learn & Celebrate! It’s National Hispanic Heritage Month
  • White House Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Greenlights Federal Executive Agencies to Impose Vaccination Mandates on Federal Contracts/Subcontracts Beyond Biden’s Federal Contractor Vaccination Mandate
  • E-Verify Reminder to Employers
  • Get Ideas for National Disability Employment Awareness Month This Thursday Via a Twitter Chat!
OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: September 13, 2021

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

  • Submit Stories About Essential Workers for USDOL’s Hall of Honor
  • Get Involved in National Apprenticeship Week!
  • National Association of State Workforce Agencies Annual Summit Open for Registration
  • NLRB General Counsel Issued a Memo Instructing Staff to Expand Financial Remedies in Enforcement Actions Under the NLRA, Including “Consequential” Damages
  • Two of President Biden’s Four Vaccine Mandates are Likely Unlawful, Without Implementing Rules, While the Other Two are Likely Lawful
  • President Biden Mandates COVID-19 Vaccine for Certain Federal Contractors: Exceptions As Interesting As Who is Covered
  • Comment or Vote on How to Advance Worker Equity
OFCCP Week In Review: November 8, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: September 7, 2021

by | Sep 7, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • Twenty States File Suit to Strike Down EEOC Technical Assistance Documents Regarding Disputed Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Protections
  • OFCCP Came Out of Hibernation and Exploded with Three New Enforcement Initiatives
  • OFCCP’s New Emerging AAP Delivery Portal and AAP “Verification” Program: Much Ado About Nothing
  • DirectEmployers Partners with Leading Neurodiversity Expert Haley Moss to Promote Disability Inclusion & Diversity in the Workplace
  • Form I-9 Flexibility Continues Per COVID Precautions
  • New Courses Available for Transitioning Military Spouses
  • Sample Application Now Available for “HIRE Vets Medallion Award”
  • OFCCP Announced 400 New Full Compliance Reviews of Construction Contractors in its Latest CSAL
  • It’s September?! Take A Moment to Be Aware
  • Artificial Intelligence in the Hiring Process…Friend or Foe?]
  • Back to the Future: OFCCP Rescinds as Premature the Trump OFCCP’s Rescission of OFCCP’s Interest to Evaluate Employer EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data Reports
  • August Job Numbers Plummet by Over Half a Million Jobs: COVID-19 Economic Recovery Stunted
  • Nomination Process Open for the Advisory Committee on Veterans’ Employment, Training, and Employer Outreach
  • President Biden Issued EO On White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity through Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Revised EEO Tabulation Data for AAPs Must Be Used Starting January 1, 2022
  • The First Labor Day Parade – Almost a Disaster!