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EEOC Shakeups Under the Trump Administration Targeting Gender Identity, Abortion Accommodations, and AI Bias

Benesch on 2/24/2025

The Trump Administration has issued swift changes in policy, and the effects are now reaching the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). While the EEOC is still awaiting quorum to vote on major actions, it is...more

A Whirlwind Start: Employers’ Recap of First 21 Days of the Trump Administration

Fisher Phillips on 2/11/2025

President Donald Trump is just 21 days into his second term in office, but you might already be struggling to keep up with the number of changes and policy shifts coming from the new administration. While new presidents are...more

Trump Transforms Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/31/2025

In the first days of his presidency, President Donald J. Trump made significant changes to the makeup and priorities of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On the second day of his administration, President...more

Client Alert: New Executive Orders on DEI

Whiteford on 1/28/2025

On January 20 and 21, 2025, President Trump issued several executive orders (“EOs”)[1] that significantly impact diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (“DEI” and “DEIA”) programs and initiatives. These executive...more

What Contractors and Grantees Need to Know About President Trump’s Day 1 Executive Orders

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/22/2025

President Trump issued several Executive Orders (EOs) on January 20, his first day in office, that will impact pending, current, and future contracts and grants. Many of his initial EOs are generally applicable across...more

Biden Administration Issues Order on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Morgan Lewis on 1/25/2021

As one of his first actions in office, President Joe Biden has issued an executive order ensuring that last year’s US Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County is applied immediately and efficiently by all federal...more

Construction Contractors Take Note: OFCCP’s Industry-Focused Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) May Prove Helpful in Preparing for...

Carlton Fields on 2/18/2020

Federal construction contractors are barred from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or covered veteran status, and many...more

Michigan Governor Furthers LGBT Protections in State Contracts and Bans State Agencies From Asking For Salary History

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/21/2019

Hitting the ground running, Michigan’s new governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has imposed new requirements in the employment arena—but only for executive branch state employees and some contractors and grant and loan recipients....more

Louisiana Court Finds Executive Order Extending Protections to LGBT Employees of State Contractors Unconstitutional

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/3/2017

In April of 2016, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed Executive Order JBE 2016 – 11, which sought to protect lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender individuals, among other protected classes, from discrimination...more

The Election is Over, Now What?

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 11/22/2016

Now that the election is over, many clients and friends are asking what labor and employment law might look like under the soon to be President Trump. Of course, no one can predict exactly what will happen in the coming term....more

Federal Contractors Must Comply with OFCCP's Revised Sex Discrimination Guidelines or Face Possible Debarment - Effective August...

Baker Donelson on 8/11/2016

Earlier this year, the OFCCP published a Final Rule revising its Sex Discrimination Guidelines which prohibits discrimination by government contractors on the basis of sex. The new Rule requires federal contractors to...more

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