On August 8, 2023, the Department of Labor issued a new rule redefining how wages are calculated for more than one million construction workers and implements a number of sweeping changes under the Davis-Bacon Act. The rule,...more
Orders that cover federal employees and contractors, air travel, healthcare facilities, and insurance cost-sharing are expiring as Public Health Emergency also ends -
On May 1, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the...more
Federal contractors will need to use a recently updated OFCCP form when collecting voluntary applicant data concerning disabilities beginning in July 2023. On April 26, 2023, OFCCP published the revised Voluntary...more
Recent developments and announcements from the U.S. Department of Labor highlight the agency's increased focus on the construction industry. In November 2021, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and...more
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued its second Directive of 2022 (DIR 2022-02) to expedite compliance reviews and to increase contractors' burdens to produce documents...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued its first Directive (DIR 2022-01) formalizing and clarifying OFCCP’s more aggressive approach to require federal contractors to...more
On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of Executive Order 14042, the federal contractor vaccine mandate. As...more
On Tuesday, November 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky enjoined the federal government from enforcing the vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all covered...more
On Friday, following President Biden's September 9, 2021, Executive Order (EO) on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) released the Federal...more
Federal contractors and subcontractors will soon be asked to regularly certify that they have compliant Affirmative Action Plans (AAP), and contractors may even be required to upload a copy of their AAPs on an annual basis,...more