The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has selected 500 federal contractors and subcontractors to undergo affirmative action plan (AAP) audits. The names of the companies are contained in OFCCP’s Corporate...more
As we previously reported, the deadline for employers to submit their EEO-1 Component 1 reports is June 4, 2024. The federal regulations requiring reporting of the EEO-1 Component data also provide a mechanism for the EEOC...more
As employers have increasingly used artificial intelligence (AI) and other Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDTs) to assist human resource professionals and hiring managers in reviewing voluminous resumes, federal and...more
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on April 25, 2024 its designation of 16 additional federal construction projects to participate in the Mega Construction Project...more
The EEOC recently announced that the 2023 EEO-1 data collection period will open on April 30, 2024. Employers with 100 or more employees must report data about their workforce, including job category and sex and race or...more
The United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) Contractor Portal opens on April 1, 2024. All eligible federal contractors must log in and certify their compliance with...more
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently designated 12 additional projects to participate in the Mega Construction Project Program (MCPP).
As we discussed in our March 28,...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires certain private employers and federal contractors to submit and certify reports concerning their workforce demographic data. This data collection, known as the...more
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New Jersey’s new amendments to its Unemployment Compensation Law, (UCL) which became effective July 31, 2023, will impose significant and onerous reporting requirements on employers upon the separation of an employee and...more
For the first time since May 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released an updated form for Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability that must be incorporated...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released a list of 12 large federal construction projects (megaprojects) that it has designated as being eligible for its Mega Construction...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced that federal contractors and subcontractors will have between March 31 and June 29, 2023 to certify their compliance with...more
As of January 30, 2022, thousands of federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to raise the minimum wage for employees who work on or in connection with a covered federal contract.
Specifically, pursuant to...more
After years of waiting, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) finally announced on December 2, 2021, the opening of its long anticipated Affirmative Action Program Verification...more
Last month the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for the 2021 Fiscal Year (FY2021).
The CSAL is a courtesy notice to federal contractors...more
Over the past several years, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has been inching towards requiring all covered federal contractors to annually verify whether they have...more
As we discussed in a previous alert, in May 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) delayed data collection in light of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Recently, the EEOC announced its plan to open data...more
Government contracts are often a critical source of business for many companies. However, companies that conduct business with federal and state governmental agencies must comply with a litany of complex laws and regulations...more
On July 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published the final rule, “Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination Obligations of Federal Contractors and...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently unveiled an updated version of the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form.
Federal contractors and subcontractors use this form to collect data...more
As a result of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on May 8, 2020 that it will delay the opening of the 2019 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection and the 2020 EEO-3...more
As federal agencies close facilities due to the COVID-19 outbreak and related quarantine orders, the contractors working on federal projects have idled work forces and placed many of their employees on paid leave to ensure...more
A funeral director who claims he was terminated because of his use of medical marijuana to manage cancer-related pain may pursue discrimination claims against his former employer, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in Wild v....more
Two recent developments may lead to New Jersey employers being required to reimburse the cost of medical marijuana for workers’ compensation recipients. In a case of first impression, New Jersey’s Appellate Division, in...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that it would not request, accept or use EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data collected by the Equal Employment...more