Blowing the Whistle: What Employers Should Know About DEI & the False Claims Act
When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
Podcast - Navigating the Updated SF-328 Form
CHPS Podcast Episode 5: The Future of Federal Procurement
DOL Restructures: OFCCP on the Chopping Block as Opinion Letters Expand - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Abortion Protections Struck Down, LGBTQ Harassment Guidance Vacated, EEO-1 Reporting Opens - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Podcast - A Comparative Guide to Obtaining an FCL: DCSA vs. the Intelligence Community
2024-2025 Bid Protest Decisions with Far-Reaching Impacts for Government Contractors
Non-Competes Eased, Anti-DEI Rule Blocked, Contractor Rule in Limbo - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday®
Diversifying Your Contract Pipeline by Maximizing Opportunities through the DOD’s Mentor Protégé Program
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Latest Developments on DEI Executive Order and Action Items before April 21 Deadline
Podcast - The "I" in FOCI and AI: Innovation, Intelligence, Influence
#WorkforceWednesday®: EEOC/DOJ Joint DEI Guidance, EEOC Letters to Law Firms, OFCCP Retroactive DEI Enforcement - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Contractors Alert - DEI Restrictions Reinstated by Appeals Court - Employment Law This Week®
Podcast - What Are Joint Ventures and When Should They Get Cleared?
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 40: Federal Contractors Under the 2nd Trump Administration with Joan Moore & Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
Staying Ahead with Federal Government's Impact on Business
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 18 - The Reshaping of ESG & DEI
AGG Talks: Solving Employers’ Problems Podcast - Episode 5: What Employers Need to Know About DEI Policy Changes Under the Trump Administration
False Claims Act Insights - Can DE&I Initiatives Lead to Potential False Claims Act Liability?
This week, we cover the striking down of abortion protections for workers and LGBTQ harassment guidance, as well as the beginning of a brief EEO-1 reporting season (concluding on June 24). Abortion Protections for Workers...more
The 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection window opened on May 20, 2025, and the deadline to file the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is June 24, 2025. Filers should note that the collection window is shorter this year, and...more
In the days following his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed numerous Executive Orders (EOs) including the far-reaching “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” which will affect private...more
On the first day of his presidency, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued two executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government and stating that the US government...more
The Trump Administration’s new Executive Order on “gender ideology extremism” signals a dramatic shift in federal policy that will impact workplace policies, benefits, and compliance obligations relating to transgender...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more
You have done everything you are supposed to do in order to increase minority and female hiring. You are happy with targeted outreach done in tandem with Talent Acquisition. Circa’s job postings have returned a diverse crop...more
In September 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden promised organized labor that, if elected, he would be the “strongest labor president you’ve ever had.” In his first 100 days in office, now President Biden has acted quickly and...more
On January 20, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order entitled “On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” The Executive Order initially recognizes that...more
New York City now recognizes LGBT-owned businesses as minority-owned businesses, which will give LGBT-owned businesses an opportunity to compete for billions of dollars of government contract opportunity. This new designation...more
President Biden signed a flurry of executive orders on January 20, 2021, his first day in office, a number of which rescinded or revised the prior administration’s executive orders and policies with regard to equity in the...more
As part of the many Executive Orders signed his first day in office, President Biden formalized is administration’s commitment to protecting the rights of the LGBTQ+ community by signing an Executive Order on Preventing and...more
On January 8, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an opinion letter on “Legal Protections for Religious Liberty in the Workplace.” The opinion letter builds on OFCCP’s recent regulations...more
Preliminary injunction stalls bias training order. A federal judge in California has imposed a nationwide injunction prohibiting enforcement of portions of Executive Order 13950. The court’s Order grants a preliminary...more
On December 22, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction banning the enforcement of Executive Order 13950, which seeks to prohibit purported...more
On October 29, 2020, the National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance (represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.) filed a complaint challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order...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
On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that refusing to hire, firing, or otherwise subjecting an individual to workplace discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity is the equivalent of...more
2020 Preview. -= Federal lawmakers returned to Washington, D.C., this week to kick off the second session of the 116th Congress. With national political elections 10 months away, the policy debates will be amplified, and...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest filed by Ekagra Partners, LLC challenging the terms of a request for proposal (RFP) issued by the General Services Administration...more
Most employers are required to post the familiar EEO Is the Law poster. This is a friendly reminder that the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) also requires federal contractors and subcontractors subject...more
Some pretty horrifying facts about workplace conduct at the Providence, R.I., Fire Department involving co-workers: calling a female lieutenant firefighter “bitch” “c—t,” “lesbian lover,” and “lesbo”; telling her, “I don’t...more
The deadline for California Governor Jerry Brown to sign new bills into law officially expired October 15, 2017. In addition to signing five bills last week, the Governor signed three more employment-related bills into law...more
On May 4, 2017, the President signed the Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Liberty (the “EO”). The EO’s stated policy is to “vigorously enforce Federal law’s robust protections for religious freedom.” An early version...more
During a ceremony in the Rose Garden, President Trump signed a much-anticipated “Religious Liberty” executive order. The Executive Order states it is the - policy of the executive branch to vigorously enforce Federal...more