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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
The recent announcement that President-elect Donald Trump has empowered Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new Department of Government Efficiency – also known as DOGE – has led to questions from employers about what...more
Federal contractors have until December 9, 2024, to file an objection to the public release of their Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Report for the year 2021. Failure to submit an objection by this deadline could result in the...more
The University of Utah and a non-profit organization named "As You Sow" have issued FOIA requests to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) for the 2021 Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports filed by federal...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently issued notice that it has received two new requests from the University of Utah and a nonprofit organization named “As You Sow,”...more
Contractors That Have Filed EEO-1 Reports Have Until Mid-December to File Objections to the Release of Their Information Under the FOIA - In 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) received a...more
Objections are due by December 9. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it has received additional requests for contractors’ EEO-1 Reports under the Freedom of Information Act. These FOIA...more
On October 29, 2024, the Office of Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) published a notice in the Federal Register about a request for Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports (the “Consolidated Reports”) for 2021. (The request is...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published a notice in the Federal Register notifying federal contractors of two new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the disclosure of contractors’...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced through its website and the Federal Register a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request targeting federal contractors’ Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1...more
Like clockwork, the 2024 VETS-4212 reporting platform will open on August 1, 2024, with the filings due by September 30, 2024. Unlike the EEO-1 reports, the VETS-4212 reports have maintained a consistent opening date for many...more
This week, we’re focused on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) filing requirements for the EEO-1 Component 1 data: The EEOC requires private employers with 100 or more employees, as well as certain...more
The EEOC recently announced that the 2023 EEO-1 data collection period will open on April 30, 2024. Employers with 100 or more employees must report data about their workforce, including job category and sex and race or...more
The federal government has revised the racial and ethnic categories that apply to data collection efforts across federal agencies, including the EEO-1 survey administered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...more
The EEO-1 Instruction Booklet for the 2023 EEO-1 reports was published on March 19th, 2024. In comparing this instruction booklet to the prior version, there are some notable changes. A brief overview of the purpose and...more
Over four years after collecting pay data from approximately 70,000 private employers and federal contractors via its controversial EEO-1 “Component 2” form, EEOC has released a public website featuring aggregated pay data by...more
Each year, employers with 100 or more employees and certain federal contractors with 50 or more employees must file EEO-1 reports for their respective workforces. While this reporting has traditionally been straightforward,...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will begin accepting employers’ 2023 Component 1 EEO-1 data starting Tuesday, April 30. The last day to file the data is June 4. The EEOC anticipates that its Component 1...more
On February 15, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) filed a notice of appeal to the December 2023 court decision ordering the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to release the consolidated EEO-1 reports of...more
As previously reported, in late December 2023, the Northern District of California ordered OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors it had previously withheld from production based on various exemptions under...more
Despite objections by thousands of employers and its own continuing review of records, the OFCCP has been ordered by a federal court to produce all EEO-1 Type 2 reports of federal prime contractors and first-tier...more
By: Caroline Moughan and Evan Szarenski A United States District Judge ruled on December 22nd that the consolidated EEO-1 reports of federal contractors that were withheld by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs...more
Executive Summary: On December 22, 2023, a federal court in California ordered the OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors who had filed an objection to the agency’s release of their EEO-1 data in response...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Many federal contractors and subcontractors treat their EEO-1 reports as confidential because they contain detailed demographic data and workforce information. A lawsuit brought by the Center for...more
It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we’ll see in the workplace in the coming year, especially given the recent volatility we’ve experienced and expect for the foreseeable future. Despite the ever-present...more