OFCCP Week In Review: January 2, 2024

OFCCP Week In Review: January 2, 2024

by | 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: January 2, 2024

OFCCP Week In Review: October 24, 2022

by | Oct 24, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • “End Human Trafficking in Government Contracts Act” Enacted Now Requiring Debarment and Suspension Referrals
  • OMB Temporarily Withheld Approval of Proposed Changes to Union “Persuader Reports” “Outing” Federal Contractors Pending Review of Public Comments
  • Biden Administration On The Horns of Another Vaccination Mandate Dilemma: While the Legal “Cuffs Are Now Off” Allowing Reinstatement of the President’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors, The President is Now Slow Walking The Reinstatement of His Mandate
  • US EEOC Released, Then Immediately Revised, Updated Employee Rights Poster
  • I-9 Form Flexibility Extended, Yet Again…This Time to July 31, 2023
  • NLRB General Counsel Pushed Interim Settlements of ULP Claims, Instead of 10(j) Injunctions, While Underlying Case Is Pending
  • In Brief
  • Looking Ahead: Upcoming Date Reminders
OFCCP Week In Review: January 2, 2024

OFCCP Week In Review: July 11, 2022

by | Jul 11, 2022 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • USDOL Secretary Used Prior Secretary Scalia’s Order 01-2020 To Issue A Final Ruling Ordering Convergys to Comply With OFCCP Document Demands
  • EEOC Settled Claims That Medical Practice Violated GINA By Collecting COVID-19 Test Results Of Employees’ Family Members
  • OFCCP Submitted To OMB Its Final Rule To Rescind Trump-Era Religious Exemption, Publication Likely Prior To Mid-terms
  • E-Verify Will End This Week The Extended Timeframes For Employees To Visit SSA To Resolve Mismatches
  • OFCCP Walked Back Part Of Its Extension Of Its AAP Verification Portal “Deadline”
  • Economy Added 372,000 Jobs in June, BLS Reported as Biden Administration Touts “Full Recovery” To Pre-Pandemic Numbers
  • President Biden Issued Executive Order On “Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services”
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: 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: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: June 28, 2021

by | Jun 28, 2021 | Week In Review (WIR)

  • Appeals Court Holds Shareholders Have Standing to Challenge California Law Requiring Women on Public Company Boards of Directors
  • LGBTQ+ Advocates Meet With White House Officials To Promote Equality Act
  • USDOL Opens National Online Dialogue: Women and Work: Reinvestment, Return, and Recovery
  • NLRB Prepares for Final Democrat Board Member
  • The Biden Administration Rescission of Trump Administration Joint Employer Rule Under the Fair Labor Standards Act is Imminent
  • Splinter Democrats Implore President Biden to Use Executive Order to Further Worker Protections, This Time by Axing Arbitration Agreements
  • WHD Tip Rule Proposal Seeks to Rescind Trump Rule
  • EEOC Legal Counsel Appointed
  • In Blow to Federal Agency Transparency, Congress Overturns New (Trump era) EEOC Conciliation Process
  • USDOL To Host Davis Bacon Training For Federal Contractors
  • EEO-1 Filing Deadline Extended
  • GAO Reports Veterans Affairs Must Improve Veteran Wait-Time for Care
OFCCP Week In Review: December 20, 2021

OFCCP Week In Review: June 7, 2021

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

  • During National Pride Month – A Push For The Equality Act
  • Obama Administration USDOL Reunion Continues
  • Most Unemployment Numbers Drop – But, We are Not Out of The Woods Yet
  • OFCCP Director Yang Fills Her Regional Director Posse: It’s Aida Collins for RD for the Southeast Region (Atlanta)