The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) – the Department of Labor office responsible for overseeing federal contractors’ and subcontractors’ equal employment opportunity and affirmative action obligations –...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued new FMLA medical certification and notice forms on September 4, 2018. The new forms are substantively identical to the agency’s previous (now expired) forms,...more
Maryland recently enacted the Disclosing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Act of 2018 (the “Act”) with an effective date of October 1, 2018. ...more
Employers and employees entering into separation or settlement agreements have traditionally agreed to nondisclosure clauses that prohibit disclosure of the agreement or the circumstances leading to its execution. ...more
4/10/2018
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Corporate Culture ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Harassment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hostile Environment ,
Non-Disclosure Agreement ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deductions ,
Tax Reform ,
Title VII
We previously blogged about the requirements of Maryland’s new paid sick leave law, the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act. That law took effect on February 11, 2018, despite efforts by a number of lawmakers to delay it. ...more
We blogged in February about two Seventh Circuit cases pending before the Supreme Court that would have given the Court the opportunity to provide guidance as to whether, and if so to what extent, the ADA requires employers...more
Most employers are required to post the familiar EEO Is the Law poster. This is a friendly reminder that the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) also requires federal contractors and subcontractors subject...more
3/13/2018
/ EEO ,
Employee Handbooks ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Gender Neutral ,
LGBTQ ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Transparency ,
Posting Requirements ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Subcontractors ,
Transgender
Suppose that an employee with cancer has exhausted 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) but needs more time to recover from treatment before returning to work....more
Absent further action by the Maryland General Assembly, a new sick leave law known as the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act (the “Law”) will take effect in Maryland by February 11, 2018. ...more
Employers facing a determination by the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) that they have violated the anti-discrimination laws applicable to federal contractors often confront a black box when trying to...more
Employers subject to EEO-1 reporting were relieved to learn that the controversial new pay data reporting requirement for this year’s EEO-1 report was recently suspended. ...more
11/16/2017
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hurricane Harvey ,
Hurricane Irma ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
VETS 4212 ,
Wage and Hour