Employer Liability Issues, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

New Federal Religious Expression and Accommodations Guidance May Impact Private Employers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/4/2025

In July 2025, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued two important memos regarding religious accommodations and religious expression in federal workplaces. ...more

Trump Administration Issues Guidance on ‘Unlawful DEI-Related Discrimination’ in the Workplace

BakerHostetler on 3/24/2025

In a follow-up to our previously published article concerning what steps employers should take in the wake of President Donald Trump’s efforts to end illegal DEI discrimination, we note that the federal government has since...more

Shared Applicant Pools for Agency Jobs

DCI Consulting on 1/31/2024

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced an initiative for federal agencies to pursue pooled hiring with a focus on skills-based selection, evaluating needed skills versus applicants’ education and past employment...more

Transgender Issues in the Workplace

Poyner Spruill LLP on 9/1/2015

Since 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken the position that transgender individuals are protected from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). The EEOC...more

That is SO last week - July 2015 #2

Zelle LLP on 7/14/2015

Last week, The New York Times’ The Upshot blog covered a topic that has been one of our top concerns for a while: how big data can discriminate. The post followed a Carnegie Mellon University study that reported, among many...more

Liability for Data Breach Involving Employee Information: Even the Federal Government and Third Party Vendors Are Not Immune

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/7/2015

In what is quickly becoming the newest trending topic in class action litigation, another class action has been filed alleging the disclosure of employee personally identifiable information due to a cyber attack. This...more

OPM sued by workers’ union in proposed class action

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 7/6/2015

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was sued this week in the D.C. federal court by its workers’ union the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). Significantly, the suit named OPM Director Katherine...more

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