On May 20, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection window is now open. The timeframe for covered employers to file the report is shorter than in...more
On March 14, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed the nationwide injunction a federal district court had issued in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education...more
3/21/2025
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Trump Administration
This week the EEOC issued its final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which went into effect in June 2023. The PWFA requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations...more
4/18/2024
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Employee Rights ,
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Pregnancy ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Title VII
In late 2022, President Biden signed legislation creating new protections for pregnant and nursing employees, which was addressed in a previous alert. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), went into effect on June 27,...more
8/15/2023
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Comment Period ,
Employee Rights ,
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Pregnancy ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Proposed Rules ,
Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (“PUMP Act”) ,
Reasonable Accommodation
For nearly 50 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison has been the seminal authority interpreting the requirements Title VII places on employers faced with employee requests for...more
EEO-1 Reports -
With September upon us, many employers are remembering the prior filing deadline for EEO-1 Reports and wondering what is happening with that obligation. The short answer is that the U.S. Equal Employment...more
9/11/2020
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
LGBTQ ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
VETS 4212 ,
Wage and Hour
On February 10, 2020, in National Women’s Law Center v. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) collection of gender...more
3/2/2020
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OMB ,
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Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
The continuing legal battle over whether the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will collect pay data from employers has understandably left many employers confused about their obligations....more
4/8/2019
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EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
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Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
Since the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued an immediate stay of the employee compensation reporting requirements on August 29, 2017, employers have until March 31, 2018 to complete and file their EEO-1 Report for...more
On August 29, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was initiating a review and immediate stay of employee compensation reporting requirements that...more
In connection with last week's United State of Women Summit, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued updated guidance on sex...more
6/23/2016
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Sex Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Transgender
On January 29, 2016, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced proposed revisions to the Employer Information Report (EEO-1) that will require collection of pay data from employers with more than 100...more