This is the time of year when employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees must prepare and file their annual EEO-1 reports – documents that provide the government with details...more
8/24/2016
/ Affirmative Action ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On June 15, 2016, the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) published a final rule detailing the obligations of federal contractors to ensure nondiscrimination on the basis of sex, and to take...more
6/21/2016
/ Best Practices ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fringe Benefits ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
LGBTQ ,
OFCCP ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
Public discourse on "healthcare" has focused primarily on health insurance and the significant changes made by the Affordable Care Act. But what about the providers of healthcare—the doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmaceutical...more
4/12/2016
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Ban the Box ,
Corporate Restructuring ,
Discrimination ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Harassment ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
WARN Act ,
Whistleblowers ,
Workplace Safety
Over the past several years, we have written repeatedly about the efforts of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (the OFCCP) to gain jurisdiction over health care providers based solely on providers'...more
5/15/2014
/ Affirmative Action ,
Contractor Audits ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Jurisdiction ,
Military Service Members ,
OFCCP ,
TRICARE
On July 22, 2013, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) won a surprising victory before the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Administrative Review Board (ARB), breathing new life into the agency’s efforts to...more