On July 28, 2025, the United States Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) issued a memorandum endorsing federal employees expressing their religious beliefs in the workplace. Specifically, OPM Director Scott Kupor instructed...more
In July 2025, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued two important memos regarding religious accommodations and religious expression in federal workplaces. ...more
In a follow-up to our previously published article concerning what steps employers should take in the wake of President Donald Trump’s efforts to end illegal DEI discrimination, we note that the federal government has since...more
How is the Trump Administration Rolling Back DEI Initiatives? On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (the “Order”) titled “Ending Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” directing...more
Following up on the Trump Administration’s series of executive orders and statements regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEI or DEIA) programs, on February 5, 2025, both the Office of Personnel...more
Date Issued: Jan. 20, 2025 This executive order directs federal agencies and federal employees to interpret "sex" solely as an immutable binary biological classification determined at conception. The order also requires...more
On January 20, the White House released an Executive Order Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing. This order rescinded the Biden-era pro-DEI orders, including the mandate for federal agencies to...more
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shall coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs,...more
The Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and the Administrator of the Department of...more
The federal government became the most recent employer to adopt a “Ban the Box” policy when The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act became effective December 20, 2021. The law prohibits federal contractors and most federal...more
Remember back in 2020, slogging through filing EEO-1 Component 2 pay data for 2017 and 2018? Several months after the Component 2 upload portal closed, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) asked the National...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - The Department of Defense issued a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to implement section 2804 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year...more
No matter how many times employment lawyers say that the ADA may require employers to provide more leave than the FMLA’s 12 week allotment, some just don’t get the message. Last week, the EEOC announced a $300,000 settlement...more
Since 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken the position that transgender individuals are protected from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). The EEOC...more
Last week, The New York Times’ The Upshot blog covered a topic that has been one of our top concerns for a while: how big data can discriminate. The post followed a Carnegie Mellon University study that reported, among many...more