With August comes federal contractors' obligation to file the annual VETS-4212 report—which collects information on contractors' employees who are protected veterans—based on a snapshot of their workforce taken between July 1...more
In an advantageous decision for federal contractors, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ruled last week that a demand by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for pay data about Google employees was...more
7/19/2017
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Affirmative Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Google ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Gap ,
Request For Information ,
Wage and Hour
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP)—the Department of Labor agency charged with enforcing affirmative action and equal employment opportunity requirements imposed on certain federal contractors and...more
President Trump's nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch could shape the U.S. Supreme Court for years to come because of the judge's relatively young age (49) and because he could be part of a conservative majority on the Court,...more
2/3/2017
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Chevron Deference ,
Confirmation Proceedings ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Joint Employers ,
Judicial Appointments ,
Justice Scalia ,
Neil Gorsuch ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Nominations ,
Over-Time ,
Persuader Rules ,
SCOTUS ,
Trump Administration ,
Union Elections ,
White-Collar Exemptions
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, management-side labor and employment lawyers everywhere scrambled to figure out what the changing administration would mean for our nation's employers and our...more
1/23/2017
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Mandates ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Joint Employers ,
LGBTQ ,
Minimum Salary ,
NLRB ,
Over-Time ,
Section 7 ,
Transgender ,
White-Collar Exemptions
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule Thursday requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to employees who work on or in connection with certain federal contracts. The final rule implements...more