OFCCP—2013 Will Be a Busy Year
After a relatively quiet year, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced ambitious plans for 2013. The agency’s recently released Unified Agenda calls for the final...
View ArticleOFCCP’s New Compensation Directive: The Agency’s Continued Search For...
After a relatively quiet 2012, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) hit the ground running in 2013. In a second major announcement in the new year, OFCCP issued new investigation...
View ArticleFederal Contractors Beware! OFCCP Will Be Searching for Any Discrimination in...
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently issued new investigation standards and procedures as well as a new policy directive for reviewing compensation systems and practices...
View ArticleHospital Jurisdiction Revisited—ARB Finds Florida Hospital Is Subject to...
In another chapter in the long-running saga of Florida Hospital of Orlando and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the U.S. Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board...
View ArticleOFCCP Establishes New 7 Percent Utilization Goal for Individuals With...
On August 27, 2013 the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published long-anticipated final rules to the affirmative action regulations for individuals...
View ArticleWho Will Be Entitled to Overtime Under Obama’s Expected Rule Change?
Today, President Obama signed a presidential memorandum instructing the Secretary of Labor to update regulations regarding overtime protections. According to White House officials, and a fact sheet...
View ArticleOFCCP Agrees to 5-Year Enforcement Moratorium for TRICARE Providers
In a letter to congressional leaders on March 11, 2014, Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will issue a directive establishing...
View ArticleOFCCP’s New Tricare Moratorium Directive: Delay of Game
On March 7, 2014, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued Directive 2014-01, TRICARE Subcontractor Enforcement Activities concerning the affirmative action obligations of...
View ArticleSome Surprises in DOL’s Just Issued Spring 2014 Regulatory Agenda
On Friday, May 23, 2014, the White House, through its executive branch and other federal agencies, issued the Spring 2014 edition of the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. Published twice a year, the...
View ArticleYour Guide to the Proposed Rules Under Executive Order 13658 Setting a...
On February 12, 2014, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13658 (“Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors”), with instructions to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez to issue...
View ArticleOFCCP Proposes Burdensome New Compensation Data Reporting Forms for Federal...
On August 6, 2014, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) requiring federal contractors and subcontractors with 100 or more employees...
View ArticleOFCCP’s New Scheduling Letter and Expanded Itemized Listing
As many federal contractors know, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) begins a compliance evaluation (or audit) by sending to the selected contractor a letter scheduling the...
View ArticleOFCCP Issues Final Rule Prohibiting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity...
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced a Final Rule implementing changes made to the affirmative action requirements by Executive Order 13672, which prohibits...
View ArticleOFCCP’s Proposed Sex Bias Rules Continue Agency’s Focus on Compensation,...
On January 28, 2015, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to replace the current sex discrimination guidelines. This updated rule is...
View Article“Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Guidance Explains Broad Labor Reporting...
Today, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published proposed guidance addressing the controversial Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order 13673, which President Obama signed on July 31, 2014 (80...
View ArticleContractor Blacklisting: Sweeping “Labor Violation” Reporting Duties in the...
President Obama’s July 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order 13673 mandates that federal contracting agencies collect information concerning a potential prime contractor’s 3-year violation...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration’s Proposed “Labor Violation” Reporting Duties...
President Obama’s July 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order 13673 mandates that federal contracting agencies collect information concerning a potential prime contractor’s 3-year violation...
View ArticlePresident Obama Announces New Paid Sick Leave Requirements for Federal...
On Labor Day, President Obama announced a new Executive Order that will require federal contractors to provide employees with paid sick leave. The new order, anticipated to apply to new federal...
View ArticlePresident Obama Orders Federal Contractors to Provide Paid Sick Leave
At a Labor Day speech in Boston, President Obama announced a new executive order that will require federal contractors to provide covered employees with paid sick leave. Executive Order 13706 was...
View ArticleFederal Contractors and Paid Sick Leave: The DOL Issues an NPRM
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors. The NPRM (currently...
View ArticleWhat is The Status of OFCCP Jurisdiction Over Healthcare Providers?
In recent years, the U.S Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has aggressively argued that healthcare providers that participate in one of three federal...
View ArticleWill Your Sick Leave or PTO Policy Satisfy DOL’s Paid Sick Leave Regulations...
The web of overlapping and incongruent paid sick leave laws in the United States just grew even more complicated. On February 24, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) added yet another set of paid...
View ArticleNew One-Stop Online Employment Resource for Veterans and Employers
On May 2, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Veterans’ Employment and Training Service launched a one-stop online resource for employment services for veterans. The new website, Veterans.gov,...
View ArticleNLRB Begins Reporting Alleged Labor Law Violations to Federal Contractor...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has directed its regional office personnel to begin reporting alleged labor law violations by government contractors named by regional directors in unfair...
View ArticleEEOC Announces Revisions for EEO-1 Proposal to Collect Pay and Hours Data
On July 13, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced revisions to the agency’s February 2016 proposal to revise the current Employer Information Report (EEO-1) to add a new...
View ArticleNew EEO-1 Form Approved — Pay Data Collection Starts March 2018
On September 29, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) officially announced that starting in March of 2018, it will collect summary employee pay data and total hours worked...
View ArticleThe Employment Law Authority - November/December 2016
Court Upholds Employer’s Dreadlock Ban Finds Grooming Policy Did Not Violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act - A federal appellate court recently held that an employer’s policy banning dreadlocks did...
View ArticlePresident Trump Announces Continuation of Protections for LGBTQ Workers on...
The White House announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2017, that Executive Order 13762, which prohibits discrimination against employees working for federal contractors on the bases of sexual orientation...
View ArticleQ&A: Georgia’s New Paid Sick Leave Law
On May 8, 2017, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law the Family Care Act, a new statute requiring certain employers to allow their employees to use up to five days of their available paid sick...
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