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Further Updates on Maryland's New Pay Transparency Laws Effective October 1, 2024

Read World Impact: Maryland recently enacted the Wage Range Transparency law, which went into effect on October 1, 2024. We previously provided a Legal Alert on this topic, however, the Maryland Department Labor has since...more

OFCCP Soon To Open Portal for Certification of Compliance

Yesterday (March 25, 2024), the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will begin accepting online submissions on April 1 from covered contractors to certify they...more

Have You Audited Your DEIA Initiatives? If Not, You Should

Executive Summary: Following the Supreme Court’s decision in SFFA v. Harvard/UNC, Attorneys General from 13 states and United States Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas sent letters to business leaders, warning of potential legal...more

OFCCP Issues Final Rule Dialing Back Transparency Promised in 2020 Predetermination Notice Regulation

Executive Summary: On August 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a final rule amending the 2020 pre-enforcement regulations colloquially referred to as the...more

OFCCP Issues Updated Scheduling Letter: Contractor Concerns Go Unaddressed

On April 18, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an updated scheduling letter.  OFCCP rejected the vast majority of the comments submitted by the contractor community in response to the...more

OFCCP Certification Portal Opens March 2023

OFCCP announced yesterday, March 20, 2023, that the Contractor Certification Portal will open in ten days.  Contractors have until June 29, 2023 to certify that they are in compliance with OFCCP’s affirmative action and...more

OFCCP Publishes List Of Contractors Whose EEO-1 Reports Will Be Released And Offers One Last Chance To Object

On August 19, OFCCP published a Notice in the Federal Register alerting federal contractors that it received a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) seeking all federal...more

OFCCP Proposes Burdensome Changes to its Compliance Review Scheduling Letter

Executive Summary: Just two days before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a proposed scheduling letter and itemized listing seeking a number of additional documents...more

OFCCP Proposes Dialing Back Transparency and Legal Thresholds in "PDN Rule"

On March 21, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) dialing back the level of transparency and evidentiary standards for issuing pre-enforcement notices...more

OFCCP Issues New Pay Equity Directive

On March 15, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a new Directive clarifying covered contractors’ obligation to conduct pay equity audits on an annual basis. Quite notably, the OFCCP issued...more

Attacking the Gender Pay Gap in Your Workplace

Equal Pay Day marks the point when the average woman’s current earnings, combined with what she earned in the previous year, equals what the average man was paid last year. This year, equal pay day came early because the...more

Countdown to OFCCP Compliance Verification: The Who, What, Where, When & Why of the Registration Process

March 30, 2022 is the deadline for federal contractors, including subcontractors, to register in OFCCP’s recently launched Contractor Portal. Beginning March 31, contractors will have until June 30 to verify compliance with...more

11th Circuit Refuses to Stay Federal Contractor Vaccine Injunction During Appeal

On December 17, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit refused to stay a nationwide injunction blocking the federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate from going into effect, pending appeal.  By way of background, on Tuesday, December...more

EEOC Delays 2021 EEO-1 Data Collection Until April 2022

The EEOC recently announced that the 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection is tentatively scheduled to open on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory data collection that requires all...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked Nationwide

On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, a federal district court in Georgia halted enforcement of the Biden Administration’s federal contractor vaccine mandate in every state. As part of his plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,...more

Task Force Guidance Mandates Employees Of Federal Contractors Receive The COVID-19 Vaccine

On September 24, 2021, President Biden’s Safer Federal Workforce Task Force issued guidance for federal contractors and subcontractors regarding mandatory COVID-19 workplace safety protocols (“Guidance”). ...more

Executive Order Mandates Federal Contractors to Implement COVID-19 Safety Protocols

On September 9, 2021, President Biden signed a new Executive Order requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to provide adequate COVID-19 safeguards for individuals working on or in connection with a federal government...more

OFCCP's Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface Approved

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the OFCCP’s Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface (AAP-VI). Although the AAP-VI portal on the OFCCP’s website is not currently live, there is a placeholder...more

EEOC Extends Filing Deadline for EEO-1 Component 1 Data to August, 2021

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has extended the deadline to submit and certify 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 Data to August 23, 2021. As discussed in our prior Alert, the EEOC announced the opening of...more

Department of Education Extends Title IX Protections to Gay and Transgender Students

Executive Summary: June is Pride Month. On June 16, 2021, Miguel Cardona, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (the “Department”) under President Joe Biden, issued a Notice of Interpretation stating that Title IX...more

EEOC Announces Opening of EEO-1 Data Collection

Yesterday, April 26, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the opening of the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection. ...more

EEO-1 Data Collection to Open at the End of April 2021

On March 12, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that the EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open at the end of April 2021 and close in July 2021. The agency has not announced an exact...more

California-Based Flight Attendants Are Protected by California's Overtime and Meal/Rest Break Standards

While the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision in Bernstein v. Virgin America, Inc., et al., ___ F.3d ____, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 5197 (9th Cir. Feb. 23, 2021), gave some wins to the airlines, air carriers employing...more

And Then There Were 500: The OFCCP Amends its 2020 Supply and Service Scheduling List and Removes All Focused Reviews and...

Employer Update: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it has revised its Fiscal Year 2020 Supply and Service Scheduling List by removing all establishments that...more

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