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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
DE Under 3: Biden "Hits the Brakes" on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies in FY 2025 Budget Proposal
In a sweeping shift, the Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed to rescind nearly all affirmative action requirements that apply to federal contractors under EO 11246 and Section 503. The changes, outlined in recent...more
Real World Impact: On January 21, 2025, on his second day in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Executive Order”). The...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice in the Federal Register on October 29, 2024, notifying federal contractors of its receipt of two new requests under the...more
On October 28, 2024, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) published a notice in the Federal Register informing federal contractors that the agency has received two new Freedom of Information Act...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
The EEO-1 report, mandated by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, requires private employers with 100 or more employees, as well as employers who contract with the federal government with 50 or more employees and...more
The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business. ...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 December 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) was ordered to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors it had withheld from production in...more
On December 22, 2023, a court in the Northern District of California ordered the disclosure of EEO-1 Reports filed by federal contractors and subcontractors (“Contractors”) between 2016 and 2020 in the case, Center for...more
The Center for Investigative Reporting’s (CIR) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP) over EEO-1 report access has ended — at least for now — in the court ordering...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
Another chapter has unfolded in the ongoing saga relating to the unprecedented and massive FOIA request for all federal contractors’ EEO-1 Reports. As we previously reported, Will Evans, a reporter with The Center for...more
When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more
POTUS Issues Executive Order on AI Framework. On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” (EO). According to its...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The EEOC and the Department of Labor Wage Hour Division (WHD) have taken an important step toward inter-agency coordination, committing to information sharing, joint investigations, training, and public...more
That AI Is So Hot Right Now, But What Is It? As we noted in this podcast, the labor and employment community – nay, most of the world – is struggling to figure out the best way to reap the benefits of AI, while most...more
POTUS Nominates Su to Lead DOL. This week, President Biden nominated Julie Su to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) (the current secretary, Marty Walsh, is scheduled to leave his position later this...more
If you are a federal contractor, keep reading. Last summer, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a notice to all federal contractors that the Center for Investigative Reporting had requested...more
Biden’s SOTU, Part II. This week, President Biden delivered his second State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress. (Over the years, the Buzz has been quite candid with our feelings about the...more
In a notice released on February 7, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) posted an updated final notice of the agency’s impending release of EEO-1 Type 2 (Consolidated) reports for 2016-2020 to all...more
We recently reported on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request covering government contractors’ 2016–2020 Type 2 EEO-1 reports announced in the Federal Register, pursuant to which contractors had until October 19, 2022,...more
On August 19, 2022, as discussed in previous alerts, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) notified its federal contractor base that the OFCCP received a request under the...more
As we previously reported, in 2019 Will Evans from The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) submitted a FOIA request to OFCCP seeking all Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports filed by federal contractors from 2016-2020. In...more
Seyfarth Synopsis. Continuing a multi-year battle over the release of employers’ EEO-1 Reports, the Center for Investigative Reporting (“CIR”) and reporter, Will Evans, have filed a complaint in the Northern District of...more