Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
DOL Restructures: OFCCP on the Chopping Block as Opinion Letters Expand - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Latest Developments on DEI Executive Order and Action Items before April 21 Deadline
#WorkforceWednesday®: EEOC/DOJ Joint DEI Guidance, EEOC Letters to Law Firms, OFCCP Retroactive DEI Enforcement - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Agencies Begin Compliance Efforts Under Trump Administration - Employment Law This Week®
Preparing for — and Surviving — an OFCCP Audit
DE Talk | If It’s Not in Writing, It Never Happened: Applicant Tracking & Recordkeeping Strategies to Ensure OFCCP Compliance
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 26: Compensation Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
DE Under 3: Court Held That Workday Was an “Agent” to Employers Licensing its AI Applicant Screening Tools
DE Under 3: Retirement of “Chevron Doctrine” Exposed Vulnerability of OFCCP’s Overreaching Interpretations of Some of its Rules
DE Under 3: OFCCP Must Shut Down its Administrative Court Prosecutions as a Result of SCOTUS’ SEC Jury Trial Case Decision
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s New Revisions & Additions to its Construction Contractor Compliance Audit Tools
DE Under 3: OFCCP VEVRAA Guidance Clarifies Protected Veteran “Benchmark for hiring” is Not a Hard Number Quota
DE Under 3: OFCCP Changes Up Important Technical Details of its Audit Selection Process in First FY 2024 CSAL
DE Under 3: EEOC’s Settlement with the SSA is a Cautionary Tale for Private Sector Employers & Federal Government Contractors
DE Under 3: Contractors Have Second Opportunity to Comment on OFCCP’s Supply & Service Contractor Portal Information Collection
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 17: Federal Contractor Fundamentals with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group, Part 2
DE Under 3: New OFCCP AI Guidance Misstates Adverse Impact Law Portending Much Coming Friction with Federal Contractors
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 16: Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group, Part 1
DE Under 3: An Explanation of the Current Federal Budget Bill Confusion
On June 27, 2025, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) Director Catherine Eschbach issued a letter announcing that OFCCP is “providing all federal contractors withthe opportunity to volunteer informationin...more
There is a growing sense of confusion and unease among many federal contractors and grant recipients in these early days of the second Trump administration. In a time when some agencies face dislocation and downsizing (or, as...more
Ten former Department of Labor Officials, including former EEOC Commissioner and past OFCCP Director Jenny Yang, sent an open letter to federal contractors responding to President Trump’s issuance of Executive Order 14173 and...more
While much of the focus on President Trump’s recent Executive Order on Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (the “EO”) has been on its elimination of race and sex-based affirmative action...more
Amidst a flurry of employment-related executive orders issued during the first few days of the new administration, on January 21, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled Ending Illegal Discrimination and...more
Two recent events — one settlement and one executive order — have heightened the risk that the False Claims Act (FCA) will be used as a tool to enforce the employment obligations of companies doing business with the federal...more
DOL’s first step in the dismantling of EO 11246. As we previously reported, President Trump has rescinded Executive Order 11246, which required federal contractors to comply with a vast regulatory scheme relating to...more
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” Consistent with the EO titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI...more
On his second day in office, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity aimed at dismantling diversity, equity, inclusion and/or accessibility (DEI or...more
Amid a flurry of executive orders starting his second administration, President Donald Trump issued an order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”) on January 21, 2025....more
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”). Among other things, the Order rescinds Executive Order (“E.O.”)...more
On the heels of ordering federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employees to be placed on paid leave, on January 21, 2025, President Trump revoked Executive Orders (“EO”) 11246 and 13672....more
President Trump has issued a flurry of wide-ranging executive orders intended to shake up the employment landscape. One of those orders, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the...more
Since 1965, federal contractors have been required to take affirmative action to ensure that they are not discriminating against employees. The affirmative action requirement stemmed from an executive order (11246) issued...more
How does the Supreme Court of the United States’ ban on affirmative action in higher education affect government contractors? In short—it doesn’t. Covered federal contractors and subcontractors must continue to comply with...more
The Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has long been interested in greater scrutiny of the affirmative action planning (AAP) efforts of contractors performing construction work directly for the federal...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' (OFCCP) final rule regarding pay transparency will place new burdens on federal contractors. The final rule takes effect on January 11, 2016 (120 days after publication in...more
Excerpt from Executive summary: The Issue: Having a federal government contract or subcontract can obligate a business to comply with substantial affirmative action obligations. Knowing whether such a contract triggers...more