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OFCCP Week In Review: January 2, 2024

by DE Compliance News | Jan 2, 2024 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

Embracing Generational Differences at Work Discussed in New DE Talk Podcast
President Biden Intends to Renominate Julie Su to be the Next U.S. Secretary of Labor
Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council Issued Final Rule Requiring Unionized Workforces on Large Federal Construction Projects
EEOC Commissioner Sonderling Continued Advocating for Increased EEOC Involvement in Regulating AI in the Workplace
In Brief
New Publications
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders

OFCCP Week In Review: April 10, 2023

by DE Compliance News | Apr 10, 2023 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

OFCCP (Silently) Again Updated Its FOIA Objection Portal
JOLTS Report: Job Openings Decreased by 632k in February, Rate Dropped to 6.0%
Latest DE Talk Podcast Discussed Building Employee Resource Groups to Create Trustworthy Environments to Encourage ID&E Conversations
President Biden Issued “Modernizing Regulatory Review” Executive Order
Substantially More People in All Race/Ethnic Groups Worked from Home Between 2019-2021, U.S. Census Bureau Reported
Economy Added 236k Jobs in March, Unemployment Rate Decreased Slightly to 3.5%
In Brief
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders

OFCCP Week In Review: June 20, 2022

by DE Compliance News | Jun 20, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

OMB Is About to Overhaul Federal Data Collections of Race and Ethnicity Information: Federal Contractors Beware of Coming New Data Collection and Reporting Burdens
New Biden Executive Order Details Plan For Feds To Collect Sexual Orientation, Gender identity, and Sex Characteristics Data: An Old Acronym Now Takes Center Stage: SOGI. Federal Contractors Beware of Coming New Data Collection And Reporting Burdens
USDOL Wage & Hour Division Published a Proposal to Revise the Existing WD-10 Form for Federal Construction Contractors
NLRB Majority Holds That Trump-era “Block-Charging” Rule Does Not Prevent NLRB Staff from Issuing Merit-Based Dismissals of Election Petitions – Even Without a Full Evidentiary Hearing
OMB And GSA Announced A “Technology Modernization Fund”
USDOL’s Wage & Hour Division Issued New Guidance Limiting Subminimum Wages To Disabled And Young Employees: No Rulemaking, Yet Again.

USDOJ Pursues Last-Minute Attempt to Kill “Adverse Impact” Discrimination Claims Against Federal Grant Recipients

by DE Compliance News | Jan 11, 2021 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) for review a Final Rule amending DOJ’s regulations administering Title VI (Title 6) of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Final Rule...

OFCCP Issued Proposed Scheduling Letters for Focused Reviews on Promotions and Accommodations…But They Are Not What You Expected

by DE Compliance News | Jan 5, 2021 | OFCCP Compliance, Week In Review (WIR)

On December 22, 2020, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) sent two proposed audit Scheduling Letters to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) seeking OMB’s approval for OFCCP to use them to launch “focused reviews on promotion” and...

OFCCP Week In Review: December 23, 2019

by DE Compliance News | Dec 23, 2019 | Week In Review (WIR)

Win $100,000 for Innovative Outreach
NLRB Restored Longstanding Union Dues Checkoff Rule
New 503 Focused Review Resources
NLRB Approved Confidentiality in Workplace Investigations
Employers Take Back Email Control
Federal Agency Engagement Scores Released
Budget Passed; President Trump Signed Both Bills Avoiding Government Shutdown
WHD Seeks Comments on Paid Sick Leave
EEOC Seeks to Close Portal for Component 2 Data

OFCCP Week In Review: October 14, 2019

by DE Compliance News | Oct 14, 2019 | Week In Review (WIR)

Supreme Court Declines to Weigh-In on ADA and Mobile Accessibility at This Time
SCOTUS Heard Oral Arguments on LGBTQ Cases
EEOC & OMB ask the Court to End the Component 2 Data Collection by November 11, 2019
Director Leen Kicks off NELI
NELI Part III – Reasonable Accommodations & Other Hot Topics
OFCCP Released TAG for Educational Institutions
Legal Counsel Sworn into EEOC

OFCCP Week in Review: September 5, 2017

by DE Compliance News | Sep 5, 2017 | Week In Review (WIR)

Thomas Dowd responds to letter of opposition regarding the potential EEOC/OFCCP Merger
Pay component of EEO-1 Report suspended
Permanent injunction issued by Texas Federal court stopping Obama Overtime Rule
Hurricane Harvey Relief: OFCCP issued National Interest Exemption from AAP development for employers entering into supply and service contracts
Head of South Carolina Workforce Agency, Cheryl Stanton, to Lead DOL Wage and Hour Unit

OFCCP Week in Review: April 17, 2017

by DE Compliance News | Apr 17, 2017 | Week In Review (WIR)

In today’s edition of OFCCP Week in Review (WIR), John C. Fox and Candee Chambers discuss the missing nominees from Team Trump; the OMB tells all federal executive agencies to start planning to reorganize and downsize; hot topic of EEO-1 compensation reporting; and USDOJ drops lawsuit against North Carolina’s revoked HB2 “Bathroom Bill”.

OFCCP Week in Review: February 20, 2017

by DE Compliance News | Feb 20, 2017 | Week In Review (WIR)

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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