President Donald Trump has rescinded President Joe Biden’s executive order (EO) increasing the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. The rescission was one of numerous Biden EOs revoked by Trump in a second wave...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a Texas federal court’s decision that invalidated President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the hourly minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. The...more
2/11/2025
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Appeals ,
Biden Administration ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Minimum Wage ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Split of Authority ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
The Supreme Court on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, declined to take up a decision addressing the president’s authority under the Procurement Act to issue a minimum wage mandate for employees working on federal government contracts....more
1/15/2025
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Constitutional Challenges ,
Denial of Certiorari ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Litigation ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Labor Regulations ,
Minimum Wage ,
SCOTUS ,
Wage and Hour
OFCCP announced it is reinstating a monthly reporting requirement (CC-257 Report) for federal construction contractors, nearly 30 years after discontinuing it. Beginning April 15, 2025, covered construction contractors must...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated an Arizona federal court’s decision denying a request by several western states to enjoin President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the minimum hourly wage...more
11/15/2024
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Biden Administration ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Lack of Authority ,
Minimum Wage ,
Pending Litigation ,
Procurement Guidelines ,
Reversal ,
Trump Administration ,
Vacated ,
Wage and Hour
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published a notice in the Federal Register notifying federal contractors of two new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the disclosure of contractors’...more
Federal contractors may need to be prepared to increase pay for employees working on, or in connection with, covered federal government contracts. The hourly minimum wage for employees performing work on federal contracts...more
Colorado’s revised Equal Pay Transparency Rules go into effect on January 1, 2024. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has released additional guidance following release of its final rules for...more
12/22/2023
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Colorado ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Equal Pay ,
Job Offers ,
Job Promotions ,
Pay Transparency ,
Posting Requirements ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
The Colorado Department of Labor Employment (CDLE) has issued the highly anticipated final Equal Pay Transparency (EPT) Rules and the Statement of Basis, Purpose, Specific Statutory Authority, and Findings, which seek to...more
After significant delay, the day is finally here! The 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection opened today, Tuesday, October 31, 2023.
The EEOC urges filing employers to begin the filing process as soon as possible to meet...more
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment has issued proposed Equal Pay Transparency (EPT) Rules. The proposed rules seek to clarify Colorado’s Ensure Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The Act, which goes into effect...more
It’s official, the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open on Tuesday, October 31, 2023. The deadline for employers to file their EEO-1 reports is Tuesday, December 5, 2023.
Employers have been waiting for the...more
As an update to our previous report on Colorado’s new Ensure Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, on July 28, 2023, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) issued a revised Interpretive Notice and Formal Opinion...more
The U.S. Supreme Court held that the use of race in university and college admissions is unconstitutional. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, No. 20-1199, together with Students...more
7/6/2023
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Civil Rights Act ,
College Admissions ,
Diversity ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
SCOTUS ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina ,
Title VII ,
Universities ,
Wage and Hour
In an update on its EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection landing page, EEOC pushed - “the tentative opening of the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection to the Fall of 2023.”
As previously reported, EEOC originally...more
As yet another update to this ongoing story, OFCCP has again pushed out the date by which contractors can notify OFCCP of their desire to object to production by the Agency of EEO-1 data in response to the Center for...more
In an update on its EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection landing page, EEOC announced “the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection is tentatively scheduled to open in mid-July 2023. Updates regarding the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1...more
As we previously reported, in 2019 Will Evans from The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) submitted a FOIA request to OFCCP seeking all Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports filed by federal contractors from 2016-2020. In...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced it was replacing its “EEO is the Law” poster with a new poster entitled “Know Your Rights.”...more
According to OFCCP, on June 2, 2022, the Center for Investigative Reporting sent OFCCP a request for the disclosure of . . .
"Type 2 EEO-1 reports for all federal contractors, including first-tier subcontractors, from...more
It’s been a busy morning for government contractors! As the NILG 2022 National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts was coming to a close and EEOC was releasing the NAS study on the EEO-1 Component 2 pay data collection tool,...more
As announced, as the 2022 NILG National Conference was coming to a close, EEOC released the long-awaited National Academy of Sciences report on the EEOC’s Pay Data Collection Completed in 2020. The study, titled Evaluation of...more
The final day of the NILG 2022 National Conference is upon us. As has become tradition, conference attendees heard from a panel of the OFCCP Regional Directors who shared insights from their respective regions and provided...more
During her keynote speech to open the second day of the NILG 2022 National Conference, EEOC Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels hinted that an announcement involving the Agency and pay equity would be coming soon....more
The 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 reporting period is currently underway. Most employers with 100 or more employees (and most federal contractors with 50 or more employees) must submit their 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 Report by...more