As the 2024 election approaches, protests continue across the country, and employees increasingly engage in discourse on important national and international political topics, employers can expect that political speech and...more
Federal appropriations are set to expire at midnight (ET) on Saturday, September 30. Unless lawmakers agree to a spending plan before then, much of the federal government will shut down....more
10/2/2023
/ Administrative Agencies ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Funding ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Government Agencies ,
Government Shutdown ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Agencies
Introduction Over a year and a half since the pandemic first started to take its toll on the health and welfare of individuals and the economy, the country is still reeling and struggling to recover. Some employers and...more
9/7/2021
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Employer Mandates ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRB ,
OSHA ,
Supply Chain ,
Telecommuting ,
Unions ,
Vaccinations
On September 1, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the Department of Labor sub-agency charged with enforcing affirmative action and non-discrimination requirements imposed on federal contractors...more
9/1/2021
/ Affirmative Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On May 28, President Biden released his $6 trillion budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year. While final spending decisions are decided by Congress, the president’s budget submission typically provides a general idea of...more
During a pandemic, protests, and a polarized election season, employers have walked an ever-increasingly fine line between protecting employee speech in the workplace and enforcing rules on workplace conduct....more
7/23/2020
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Burden-Shifting ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Section 7 ,
Title VII ,
Unions
The federal government recently released its unified federal regulatory agenda–the document that outlines regulatory and deregulatory actions agencies expect to take in coming months....more
7/8/2020
/ Affirmative Action ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay Act ,
Federal Contractors ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Labor Relations Board, and the Department of Labor will all issue regulations governing joint employment, according to the federal government’s Unified Agenda of Federal...more
11/21/2019
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
GINA ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Private Property ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Union Organizers ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wellness Programs
As the year draws to a close, employers are assessing the next wave of labor and employment laws and regulations they will face in 2020 and beyond. Most new laws taking effect at the end of 2019 and throughout 2020 are at the...more
11/14/2019
/ Ban the Box ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Form I-9 ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Health Insurance ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Reform ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
Local Ordinance ,
Marijuana ,
Minimum Wage ,
New Legislation ,
NLRB ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Pay Gap ,
Popular ,
Raids ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Smoking Bans ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
Labor Day became an official federal holiday in 1894. Although the world of employment has obviously changed significantly over the last 125 years, the pace of workplace transformation seems to have accelerated in the past...more
9/3/2019
/ #MeToo ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Ban the Box ,
Employer Mandates ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Health Insurance ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
Immigration Procedures ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Shortage ,
LGBTQ ,
Marijuana ,
Misclassification ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Rate of Pay ,
Right to Work ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Silica ,
Transgender ,
Unemployment ,
USCIS ,
Visas ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
The federal government’s Spring 2019 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (regulatory agenda), which provides insight into federal agencies’ priorities for the near and long term, was released on May 22,...more
5/28/2019
/ Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
GINA ,
H-1B ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OSHA ,
Rate of Pay ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Request For Information ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Tips ,
TRICARE ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
On March 4, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia surprised the employer community by vacating the White House Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) stay of the revised EEO-1 form’s pay data reporting...more
3/6/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
Employers will face fewer significant regulations in the coming year, according to the Trump administration's Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions ("regulatory agenda")....more
10/18/2018
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Deregulation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Employee Training ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
GINA ,
H-1B ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRB ,
OSHA ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
TRICARE ,
USCIS ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Injury
Almost two years into the new presidential administration, and with highly consequential and hotly debated mid-term elections around the corner, Littler’s Workforce Policy Institute’s Labor Day Report examines the state of...more
9/4/2018
/ ADEA ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Age Discrimination ,
Association Health Plans ,
Ban the Box ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Criminal Background Checks ,
DACA ,
Decriminalization of Marijuana ,
Drug Testing ,
Employer Mandates ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Workers ,
Gig Economy ,
H-1B ,
Health Insurance ,
Immigrants ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Persuader Rules ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Sharing Economy ,
Unemployment ,
Wage and Hour
On July 17, 2018, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers—Reps. Lois Frankel (D-FL), Ted Poe (R-TX), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Barbara Comstock (R-VA), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) —introduced legislation targeting workplace...more
7/20/2018
/ #MeToo ,
Anti-Harassment Policies ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employee Training ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Harassment ,
Hostile Environment ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Sexual Harassment
The latest Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions ("spring agenda") continues this administration's trend of adding fewer new rules and reexamining older ones. ...more
5/11/2018
/ Apprenticeships ,
Association Health Plans ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Deregulation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
H-1B ,
Joint Employers ,
NLRB ,
Persuader Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
Wellness Programs ,
White-Collar Exemptions ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
President Trump's budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 indicates the administration intends to scale back the Department of Labor (DOL) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). ...more
2/13/2018
/ Apprenticeships ,
Association Health Plans ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Deregulation ,
E-Verify ,
EBSA ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Funding ,
Immigration Procedures ,
NLRB ,
Parental Leave ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Trump Administration
Unless Congress can finalize a budget by midnight tonight (January 19), the federal government will be forced to shut down due to a lack of appropriations.
On Thursday evening, the House of Representatives passed a...more
1/19/2018
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Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Budget ,
Government Shutdown ,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ,
NLRB ,
OFCCP ,
OLMS ,
TSA ,
USCIS
As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, Republican lawmakers in both chambers of Congress made progress toward their singular legislative priority to enact comprehensive tax reform. Facing uncertainty in the 2018 midterm...more
11/28/2017
/ 401k ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EEO-1 ,
Electronic Reporting ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Mandates ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Flexible Work Arrangements ,
Income Taxes ,
Legislative Agendas ,
OSHA ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Presidential Appointments ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Section 409A ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Rates ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Injury
The current leaders of the Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and National Labor Relations Board addressed transitions and regulatory plans at their respective agencies at a November 16 forum. ...more
11/17/2017
/ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Deregulation ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
GINA ,
H-1B ,
H-2B ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Immigration Procedures ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Agencies ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Tip Credit ,
Tipped Employees ,
Wage and Hour
Nine months into President Trump’s term, the pace of nominations and appointments to fill critical position within his administration is accelerating. Action on the nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),...more
10/24/2017
/ Administrative Appointments ,
Administrative Interpretation ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Association Health Plans ,
Cost-Sharing ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Reform ,
HRA ,
Joint Employers ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NLRB ,
Nominations ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Sharing Economy ,
Subsidies ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour
Last month began with significant momentum but long odds that Senate Republicans would pass legislation repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the early hours of July 28, GOP efforts came to a screeching...more
8/11/2017
/ Administrative Appointments ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Best Interest Contract Exemptions ,
Confirmation Proceedings ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Deregulation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Investment Management ,
Joint Employers ,
Legislative Agendas ,
NLRB ,
Popular ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Repeal ,
Trump Administration
From the workplace policy perspective, much of the focus of the first 100 days of the Trump administration was on confirming a new Secretary of Labor and reversing the Obama administration’s labor and employment agenda....more
6/8/2017
/ Administrative Authority ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
EBSA ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Funding ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Minimum Wage ,
OFCCP ,
On-Demand Services ,
OSHA ,
Paid Leave ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Schedules
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing to discuss the direction of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The witnesses and lawmakers raised several topics...more
5/24/2017
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
President Trump has released his proposed federal budget, setting out his priorities for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins October 1. As anticipated, the budget represents a marked shift in potential government spending; it...more