In an attempt to contain the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden issued two Executive Orders on September 9, 2021 that mandate COVID-19 vaccines for federal government employees and employees of federal government...more
9/10/2021
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Vaccinations ,
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On July 29, 2021, the Biden Administration announced a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for certain employees of federal government contractors. ...more
7/30/2021
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On July 1, 2021, OFCCP issued its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) scheduling 750 federal contractor and subcontractor establishments for compliance evaluations in fiscal year 2021. ...more
On March 2, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) amended its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for supply and service contractors for fiscal year 2020 to remove all of the contractor...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced this week that it will open the EEO-1 Component 1 Report in April 2021. The EEO-1 requires covered employers to report by job category the race, ethnicity and...more
On October 21, 2020, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) continued to address the highly-controversial diversity and inclusion (D&I) training restrictions in Executive Order 13950....more
10/22/2020
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Title VII ,
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On September 11, 2020, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) online for public access. The CSAL identifies contractors who will be receiving...more
Craig Leen, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) at the U.S. Department of Labor spoke on Monday, July 6, 2020 to lead off the National Industry Liaison Group’s 2020 Virtual Conference....more
On Friday Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released an updated Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form (CC-305). The new form is much shorter than the previous form and now fits on a single...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced May 7, 2020 that it will delay until March 2021 the annual filing of the EEO-1 Component 1 Report, which requires covered employers to report by job category the...more
5/11/2020
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EEO-1 ,
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Equal Pay ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires employers with at least 100 employees (and federal contractors with at least 50 employees) to file an EEO-1 Report with a count of employees by establishment and job...more
5/22/2019
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Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
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Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that employers covered by the EEO-1 reporting obligation must submit pay data broken down by job category, pay band, race, ethnicity and sex for both calendar...more
5/8/2019
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Regulatory Requirements ,
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Wage and Hour
On April 25, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia gave an oral ruling from the bench reportedly accepting the EEOC’s proposal to make employers submit their 2018 pay data by September 30, 2019....more
4/26/2019
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Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
On March 25, 2019, the OFCCP released its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) online for public access. The CSAL identifies 3,500 contractor establishments that will be audited by OFCCP, with a portion of those...more
On March 4, 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia caught the employer community by surprise by ordering the EEO-1 pay data reporting requirement immediately reinstated....more
3/7/2019
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Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently announced that EEO-1 Reporting will open in early March 2019, and covered employers must submit their EEO-1 reports on or before May 31, 2019. ...more
3/1/2019
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EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
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Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
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Pay Gap ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
With the posting of 2019 CSAL notices possibly imminent, government contractors should prepare for the fact that a portion (approximately 500 out of 3,500 total) of the OFCCP’s FY 2019 compliance evaluations will be Section...more
It has been reported that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will be issuing Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSAL) in February....more
Last Friday, OFCCP issued its first three directives of the 2019 fiscal year. With its new Compliance Review Procedures Directive (2019-01), OFCCP rescinds the Obama administration’s Active Case Enforcement (ACE) Directive...more
On November 30, 2018, the OFCCP made true on OFCCP Acting Director Leen’s comments in October that OFCCP was planning to implement an opinion letter program, issuing the Opinion Letters and Desk Help Directive (2019-03). ...more
On October 18, 2018, OFCCP Acting Director Craig Leen gave a 2-hour presentation at the National Employment Law Institute’s Affirmative Action Update on “What’s on the OFCCP Director’s Desk”. ...more
A second wave of the Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) were released to 750 more contractors. As we previously reported, 1,000 CSALs were mailed in February, with scheduling letters that followed on March 19,...more
Following last year’s trend, the OFCCP’s website indicates that the Agency mailed 1,000 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) on February 1, 2018. ...more
On February 1, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced plans to expand EEO-1 reporting requirements, beginning in 2017, to include compensation information for employers of 100 or more employees....more
The Department of Labor recently published its final rule amending the definition of “spouse” in the Family Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") regulations to include eligible employees in legal same-sex marriages. Beginning on March...more