The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released additional guidance regarding the new EEO-1 Component 2 data reporting requirements for employers who were involved in mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs in 2017...more
8/7/2019
/ Complex Corporate Transactions ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Professional Employer Organization ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On July 22, 2019, OFCCP issued its second published opinion letter addressing whether “contractors can work with OFCCP to develop a PAG [Pay Analysis Grouping] structure that OFCCP would accept as valid for use in future...more
Employers would be forgiven for feeling figurative whiplash from all of the developments surrounding the EEO-1 in recent weeks. After understanding they would not have to submit pay data with their EEO-1 submissions (referred...more
5/6/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Order to Lift Stay ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
On April 29, 2019, the EEOC issued the following statement regarding the recent EEO-1 developments:
Notice of Immediate Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection -
EEO-1 filers should begin preparing to submit...more
5/1/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Order to Lift Stay ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
According to published reports, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a ruling from the bench today ordering employers to submit the pay data component of the EEO-1 form (“Component 2”) by September 30, 2019. In March, Judge...more
4/25/2019
/ Compliance ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Contractors ,
OMB ,
Order to Lift Stay ,
Pay Data ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Trial Court Orders ,
Wage and Hour
Yesterday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan held a hearing on the pay data component of the EEO-1 form (“Component 2”). In March, Judge Chutkan lifted the stay on collection of Component 2 data that had been imposed by the...more
Earlier this week, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) announced that it entered into a conciliation agreement with Humana Inc. (“Humana”) to resolve allegations that Humana paid hundreds of women at...more
Yesterday, the 2017 EEO-1 Survey became available. Private employers with 100 or more employees and federal government contractors or subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of $50,000 or more...more
1/26/2018
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Payroll Records ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
Once again, a government shutdown seems inevitable. During previous government shutdowns, government agencies and departments issued stop-work orders, grinding work on government projects and contracts to a halt. Contractors...more
On November 7, 2017, the Montgomery County Council unanimously passed a bill to increase the County’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2021 for employers with more than 50 employees (the “Bill”). Mid-size businesses, with 11...more
Oregon recently enacted the Oregon Equal Pay Act of 2017 (H.B. 2005) (the “Act”). The Act broadly expands Oregon’s existing equal pay protections and imposes new restrictions on Oregon employers’ use of salary histories in...more
7/24/2017
/ Equal Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
New Hires ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Protected Class ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Salary/Wage History ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
The D.C. Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016 (the “Act”) has been submitted to Congress for a 30-legislative-day period of review. Presuming that the Act does not get overturned by Congress and the President, it is...more
Yesterday (January 23, 2017), Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett vetoed legislation that the Montgomery County Council approved last week that would have increased the County’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. In...more
On January 17, 2017, the Montgomery County Council approved legislation that would increase the County’s minimum wage to $15 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees by July 1, 2020, and for all other employers by...more
On January 1, 2017, new federal contract paycheck transparency, independent contractor notification, and paid sick leave requirements go into effect. Below we summarize the key elements of these new regulatory requirements....more
12/29/2016
/ Blacklist ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Federal Contractors ,
Independent Contractors ,
New Legislation ,
Notice Requirements ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Paycheck Transparency ,
Sick Leave ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wage Statements ,
Wages
Yesterday (December 20, 2016), the District of Columbia Council passed a bill that would create one of the country’s most generous paid family leave programs. If it becomes law, the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2016...more
Seattle, known for its employee-friendly ordinances, has passed a law regulating how large retailers, full-service restaurants, fast food restaurants, and coffee shops schedule and pay their hourly, non-exempt workers. ...more
On October 24, 2016, just one day prior to effective date of the Regulations and Guidance implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (collectively the “Rule”), Judge Marcia Crone of the U.S. District Court...more
10/26/2016
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Blacklist ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
First Amendment ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Pay Transparency ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Sexual Assault ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
On October 1, 2016, the Montgomery County, Maryland Earned Sick and Safe Leave Act (the “Act”) went into effect. As a reminder, the Act, provides paid sick leave to all employees working in Montgomery County, Maryland (the...more
On September 30, 2016, the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued an interim rule titled “Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information.”...more
10/7/2016
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Interim Rule ,
Job Applicants ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Secrecy ,
Wage and Hour
Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that it had finalized its rule for new EEO-1 pay equity reporting requirements. The final rule has not yet been published in the Federal...more
10/6/2016
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Payroll Records ,
Reporting Requirements ,
W-2 ,
Wage and Hour
Today, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published its final rule implementing Executive Order 13706 (the “Final Rule”), which requires certain federal contractors and subcontractors to provide paid sick leave to their...more
9/30/2016
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
Paid Leave ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Posting Requirements ,
Sick Leave ,
Sick Pay ,
Wage and Hour
Maryland’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (the “Act”) is scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2016. The Act amends Maryland’s existing Equal Pay law, expanding its protections against wage discrimination on the basis of sex...more
9/22/2016
/ Anti-Steering Rules ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Exceptions ,
Gender Identity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Transparency ,
Posting Requirements ,
Private Right of Action ,
Remedies ,
Wage and Hour
As reported today in Politico, the rule effectuating Executive Order 13706 (the “Order”), which requires certain federal contractors and subcontractors to provide their workers up to seven days of paid sick leave annually,...more
Monday, the Department of Labor announced an increase in the minimum wage that certain federal contractors must pay to employees. This comes as part of a planned incremental increase in the federal contractor minimum wage...more