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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your September 2025 To-Do List

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Here are the top ten items you should tackle in September, based on the latest workplace law developments and upcoming critical compliance dates...more

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The FOIA and Eliminating Positions/Employees

Among other things, the FOIA provides that a public agency may enter into executive session for the purpose of discussion “concerning the appointment, employment, performance, evaluation, health or dismissal of a public...more

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DOL/VETS SALUTE Program for USERRA Compliance: Considerations for Employers

On July 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL/VETS) launched a program for employers to seek guidance for ensuring compliance with the Uniformed Services Employment and...more

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No. 10: Unlocking the Secrets of OSHA Inspections Through FOIA Requests

Did you know that you can request files from OSHA? Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), employers, employees, and third parties have the right to request documents from OSHA’s inspection files. These records provide...more

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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 25: Issues for Public Employers with Bertha Enriquez of Renewable Water...

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Live from the annual Greenville SHRM conference, hosts Tina and Jennie welcome the Human Resources Manager of Renewable Water Resources, or ReWa, Bertha Enriquez. They discuss how ReWa, a quasi-public employer, navigates the...more

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Memorandum of Understanding Between Governmental Labor and Employment Agencies Creates Increased Exposure for Businesses

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As of September 13th, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL-WHD) is partnering with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to focus on “enhanced law enforcement” through information sharing, joint...more

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OSHA Expands Electronic Injury/Illness Data Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA has announced new rules requiring a broad range of employers to electronically submit additional injury and illness information in 2024....more

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OFCCP Provides Employers with Five Business Days to Submit Objections to the Disclosure of Confidential Data

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OFCCP issued yet another notice today regarding its handling of a FOIA request for production of all federal contractors’ EEO-1 Type 2 data from 2016 through 2020. The request keeps in place a February 17, 2023, deadline...more

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OFCCP Update: Possible Public Disclosure of EEO-1 Information

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Federal contractors should be aware of a recent development that could result in the public disclosure of their EEO-1 information. The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection requiring all federal...more

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Federal Contractors' EEO-1 Reports May Be Revealed

The US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently broadcasted a notice to federal contractors of its potential release of their EEO-1 reports. Contractors have until September 19,...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

OFCCP Revises Directive on Pay Equity Audits / Compensation Analysis

On August 18, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) issued “Advancing Pay Equity Through Compensation Analysis,” a revision to Directive 2022-01, “Pay Edit Audits.” The revised Directive states...more

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Illinois Workplace Transparency Act Imposes New Obligations on Local Government Employers

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Illinois Public Act 101-0221 (Public Act) creates extensive and significant new protections for employees and imposes new obligations on all Illinois employers. This Holland & Knight alert identifies unique requirements...more

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Weekly Update Newsletter - October 2019 #3

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LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION - The Supreme Court Clarifies Vague Arbitration Clauses Affecting Class Disputes for Growing Businesses - For most small to medium-sized businesses, the threat of a class action is not...more

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Privacy Concerns Lead OSHA to Rescind its Electronic Filing Requirement

In response to concerns raised by employers and to protect worker privacy, the Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) recently amended its recordkeeping regulations to eliminate the requirement that larger...more

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OSHA Pulls Back on Electronic Reporting Rule

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has partly pulled back on its controversial requirement that certain employers electronically file injury and illness data with OSHA. Last week, OSHA announced that...more

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OSHA Rescinds Substantial Portion of Injury/Illness Electronic Reporting Requirement

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Under pressure from business organizations, OSHA has issued a final rule rescinding the requirement for workplaces with 250 or more employees to electronically submit data from their OSHA 300 and 301 forms to the agency. The...more

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EEOC Issues FY 2018 Performance Report

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported significant increases in its outreach efforts and enforcement actions to prevent and remedy unlawful employment discrimination during fiscal year...more

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EEOC Ramps up Outreach and Enforcement in FY 2018 to Address Workplace Discrimination

Agency Met Increased Public Demand for Information, Training and Online Services - WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) responded to a significant increase this past fiscal year in calls,...more

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Roller Coaster Rulemaking: OSHA Publishes Proposed Rule To Reduce Injury And Illness Electronic Reporting Requirements

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Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA today published a proposed rule to amend the injury and illness recordkeeping rules by rescinding the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit information...more

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Public Advocacy Group Sues OFCCP In Connection With EEO-1 FOIA Requests

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As we’ve been discussing, now is the time for employers to be filing their annual EEO-1 reports. Coincidentally, and perhaps not un-intentionally, Public Citizen, a non profit advocacy group is also using this time to sue...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

Let’s Go To The Videotape: Can School Security Videos Be Subject To Disclosure Under FOIA?

School districts usually deny requests to view school video recordings, such as security tapes, in light of concerns about the privacy rights of students featured on these recordings. In a recent decision, the Freedom of...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Sex, Lies, and The FOIA: Wotjas v. Town of Stonington and The Disclosure of Sexual Harassment Complaints, Regardless of “Guilt.”

This author wrote previously on the status of sexual harassment investigations under the Freedom of Information Act [”FOIA”]. In a case that has grabbed some notoriety; the Freedom of Information Commission [“FOIC”] has...more

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Don’t Make Promises That You Cannot Keep: Greenwich Silver Shield Association v. Town of Greenwich, the FOIA and Discrimination...

Investigations in the public sector confront the competing demands of employee privacy rights and the public’s “right to know” under the Freedom of Information Act [“FOIA”]. Another decision by the Freedom of Information...more

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The Best Defense Is A Good Offense: Employers’ Use of The FOIA For Background Checks

In representing primarily public sector bodies over most of my career, I have generally been in a position of advising clients in how to comply with Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests, and thus usually assist those...more

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