Joint Venture Eligibility Refresher on Requirements for Government Contractors
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Diversifying Your Contract Pipeline by Maximizing Opportunities through the DOD’s Mentor Protégé Program
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#WorkforceWednesday®: EEOC/DOJ Joint DEI Guidance, EEOC Letters to Law Firms, OFCCP Retroactive DEI Enforcement - Employment Law This Week®
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On July 2, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer issued Order 08-2025, which allows the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to resume its enforcement activities related to Section 503 of the...more
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Following President Trump’s revocation of Executive Order 11246 in January 2025, federal contractors with compliance reviews in progress received notice that the Executive Order 11246 component of the review was being closed,...more
In conjunction with the recent proposed rule changes to the Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 503) and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) regulations, the Department of...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued three proposed rules to implement President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14173, which revoked Executive Order 11246 and...more
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This week, we discuss the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) plan to eliminate the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the DOL’s new opinion letter program. On May 30, 2025, the DOL moved to eliminate...more
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Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Model Deviation to FAR Part 10 - On May 22, the FAR Council released the model deviation text for FAR Part 10, Market Research. This deviation increases the flexibility of the...more
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On March 27, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the Department of Labor (DOL) from requiring federal contractors and...more
Federal courts continue to grapple with challenges to President Trump’s executive orders (“EOs”) related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), particularly EO 14151, Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs...more
On March 27, 2025, a federal district court in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the Department of Labor from implementing key provisions from two of President Trump’s Executive Orders issued in...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that Catherine Eschbach will be the new Director of OFCCP, taking over for Acting Director Michael Schloss. Director Eschbach comes from private practice as an Appellate attorney at...more
Did you hear that? It was the other shoe dropping. Approximately one month after President Trump rescinded Executive Order 11246, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is preparing to reduce its staff by 90...more
The landscape of federal employment priorities is being redefined. On January 22, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the Ending...more
We appear to be on the precipice of another federal government shutdown. Absent a political compromise, the federal government’s funding will run out on December 21, 2024. During previous government shutdowns, government...more
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Our initial thoughts on the Biden Executive Order first appeared on WilmerHale’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Blog the day that the Executive Order was released. On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration issued its...more
On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration issued the groundbreaking Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Order), which sets in motion a comprehensive...more
Shutdown Showdown. Rather than hurtling into a federal government shutdown, this week has been more of a slow, gradual, depressing slide into the shutdown, as it became apparent this week that last-minute measures to keep the...more
As of Saturday, the current federal government shutdown became the longest in our nation’s history—and employers are starting to feel the sting. While the peculiarities of the federal budget process meant that this shutdown...more