Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Will the State Attorneys General and Other State Agencies Fill the Void Left by the CFPB?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Alan Kaplinsky’s “Fireside Chat” with Matthew J. Platkin, New Jersey Attorney General
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
DE Under 3: OMB Announced Finalized Overhaul to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
DE Under 3: OFCCP Resurrects Proposal for Monthly CC-257 Employment Utilization Reports for Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: FAR Council Submitted for OMB Approval Proposed Rule on “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting”
DE Under 3: Surprises Lurk Throughout OMB's 2023 Spring Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Controversial “Pre-Enforcement Notice & Conciliation Procedures” Final Rule Coming Soon
DE Under 3: President Biden Issued "Modernizing Regulatory Review" Executive Order
DE Under 3: OMB’s Initial Proposal to Overhaul Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collections
DE Under 3: OMB Publishes Its Fall 2022 Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: Big Changes Coming to OFCCP's Supply & Service Contractor ICRs
DE Under 3: Employment Poster Requirements & the U.S. DOJ’s First-Ever Criminal Anti-Trust Prosecution
DE Under 3: Data Gathering & Data Delivery
DE Under 3: New Data Collection Burdens, NLRB’s Ruling Regarding Union Election Dismissals, and OMB’s Tech Modernization Fund
Biden’s Modernizing Regulatory Review – A New Paradigm?
DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Is it the End of the EB-5 World as We Know it? How to Prepare for Potential Changes
I-14: Update on EEO-1 and I-9 Forms, Employer Obligations After a Hurricane or Other Natural Disaster, and Attorney Jason Barsanti on Meal and Rest Breaks
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OMB Memorandum (M-25-13) advises federal agencies that they must temporarily pause all activities and disbursements of federal financial assistance that may be implicated by any of President Trump’s recent Executive Orders at...more
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On August 31, 2020, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memorandum to all executive departments and agencies on reforming regulatory enforcement...more