Revolving Door Rules: What You Need to Know Before Hiring from (or Heading to) Government
Everything Compliance: Episode 151, The What is Illegal DEI Edition
Recruitment in a Changing Federal Landscape
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Second Chance Initiatives: Hiring Workers with Criminal Histories
Employment Law Now VI-116-Top 10 Employment Issues To Consider For The Summer Kick-Off
DE Under 3: Vaccination Mandates Continuing & Federal Contractor Minimum Wage
DE Under 3: OFCCP Contractor Portal & Request for Comments for Functional Affirmative Action Programs (FAAPs)
DE Under 3: Declining Union Membership & EEOCs First Year Results Under the Biden Administration
#WorkforceWednesday: Employee Privacy and COVID-19, CMS Vaccine Mandate on Hold, Independent Contractor Classification - Employment Law This Week®
The Patchwork of Federal Vaccine Mandates
What Contractors Need to Know About Vaccination Mandates and New “Safer Federal Workforce” Guidance
Construction Contractor Compliance Update: Government Audits, Vax Mandates, and More
#WorkforceWednesday: Preparing for Biden's Vaccine Mandate, Mandate Pushback Begins, NLRA's Reach Expected to Expand - Employment Law This Week®
Challenges and Guidance on Biden's Vaccine Mandate, NY HERO Act Form Updated, Job Application Compliance - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Biden’s Employer Vaccine Mandate, NY HERO Act Safety Plans, Cannabis Cases - Employment Law This Week®
Alan Chvotkin on Sequestration
The Director of the OMB Director shall submit a plan to reduce the size of the Federal Government, requiring that agencies may hire no more than one employee for every four employees that depart. Agency heads must adhere to...more
It has proven to be an eventful first month of the new administration with multiple executive orders, memoranda issued, and lawsuits filed in response. Things are moving quickly and should be continually monitored for...more
Resistance is building. In his third week in office, President Trump is beginning to meet with resistance to some of his initiatives. Here is the latest. Court blocks voluntary separation program -- at least, until Monday....more
“Besides disrupting policy in Washington, the Trump administration is looking to disrupt fundamentally how Washington operates. Thus, even as Trump’s team loses some prominent policy fights, it still sees value in the impact...more
Due to the ongoing pandemic, federal contractors nationwide – and the attorneys who represent them – have been closely monitoring the government’s implementation of a vaccine mandate. The potential of an enforceable mandate...more
Executive Order 14042 (the “EO”) and the implementing FAR clause and Safer Workforce Task Force (SWTF) Guidance – which mandate that government contractors and their subcontractors be vaccinated absent a legal exception – has...more
Federal contractors and subcontractors across the country were forced to rethink their COVID-safety efforts when, on December 7, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia enjoined enforcement of Executive...more
On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, in The State of Georgia, et. al. v. Biden, et. al., Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a...more
[Editor's Note (12/07/21): A second court―the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia―has issued an injunction halting enforcement of the federal contractor vaccine mandate on a nationwide basis. The district...more
On December 6, we noted on this blog post that because the injunction issued by the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on November 30 prohibiting the government from enforcing the government contractor...more
A federal judge in Georgia issued a nationwide injunction blocking Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors. The case is Georgia v. Biden, S.D. Ga., No. 21-cv-00163, 12/7/21. The mandate was set to take effect on...more
On November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an order granting a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors set forth in...more
At the end of October 2021, four complaints were filed by almost 20 states challenging the government contractor vaccine mandate. While some have suggested that these states, led by Republican governors, filed the suits for...more