The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) plans to issue proposed rules implementing President Obama’s recent executive actions on the compensation practices of federal contractors. As we reported last month, President Obama took two executive actions to further his pay equity agenda: (1) he signed Executive Order 13665 prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating and retaliating against employees or applicants for discussing their compensation with one another; and (2) he issued a memorandum (“Memorandum”) directing OFCCP to publish regulations requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to submit pay data by race and gender for their employees.

According to the Department of Labor’s spring 2014 regulatory agenda, OFCCP intends to publish its proposed rules on the Memorandum in August 2014 and the proposed rules under EO 13665 in September 2014. OFCCP also revealed that it was pushing back dates for two key regulatory changes, presumably to accommodate the presidential mandate for OFCCP to publish rules on EO 13665 and the Memorandum. In its 2014 regulatory agenda for the year, OFCCP indicated that it would be issuing proposed rules on its regulations for construction contractors in April 2014 and on its Sex Discrimination Guidelines in May 2014. Now, OFCCP has announced that it will not be issuing the proposed updates to the Sex Discrimination Guidelines until September 2014 and moved the date for the proposed overhaul of its regulations for construction contractors until January 2015.