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Federal Government Contractors May No Longer Have 90 Days to Comply With Trump Administration’s DEI Executive Order

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 2/20/2025

GSA FAR Class Deviations - Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” issued on January 21, 2025, caused immediate confusion for federal government contractors since their...more

The New Trump Executive Order 14145 Regarding Equal Employment Opportunity – What It REALLY Means for HR

Miller & Martin PLLC on 1/27/2025

In the last few days since the Presidential Inauguration and initial Executive Orders, we have received emails saying everything from “President Trump has voided Title VII” to asking whether “all equal employment laws have...more

Trump rescinds Executive Order 11246

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/23/2025

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal government had to affirmatively recruit women and minorities for employment and ensure employment...more

Trump Revokes Executive Order 11246 Requiring Affirmative Action

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP on 1/23/2025

On January 21, 2025, President Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, which has been in place since 1965. EO 11246 prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual...more

BREAKING NEWS: President Trump Reportedly Revokes Executive Order 11246

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/22/2025

Bloomberg Law reported late Tuesday night that President Donald Trump has revoked Executive Order 11246 as part of a broader executive order addressing diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government and...more

The ADA Turns 34: The Intersection of Technology, AI, and Individuals with Disabilities

Littler on 8/22/2024

On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. On the recent 34th anniversary of the ADA, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) General Counsel Karla Gilbride and U.S....more

Navigating Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

Bricker Graydon LLP on 7/26/2024

An employee time traveling to today’s workplace from the 1980s would be astounded at where we’ve arrived. While we don’t (yet!) have flying cars as imagined by many 1980’s sci-fi movies, the world of work is undergoing its...more

Federal Agencies: AI in Employment Subject to EEO Regulations

DCI Consulting on 4/16/2024

On April 4, 2024, multiple federal agencies charged with enforcing various laws signed a joint statement asserting that...more

Increased Federal Focus on Artificial Intelligence in Employee Selection

DCI Consulting on 1/27/2023

Recently, New York City’s law related to the use of automated employment decision tools (where hiring/promotion decisions involve algorithmically-driven mechanisms) has garnered much attention. Other local/state entities...more

Artificial Intelligence Briefing: FTC Holds Forum on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 9/28/2022

Our latest briefing explores the recent FTC commercial surveillance and data security forum (including discussion on widespread use of AI and algorithms in advertising), California’s inquiry into potentially discriminatory...more

Legal Update: Trump’s One-offs to Labor Regulations Change the Big Picture

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 9/8/2017

When Trump was a brand-new President (or force of nature, depending on how you look at it), we observed that the dawn of his administration would not necessarily augur wholesale changes to the overall landscape of legal...more

May 2017: The Top 10 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 6/5/2017

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. May 2017 was no different, with...more

With the Election (Mercifully) Behind Us, What Will a Trump Administration Mean for Employers?

Littler on 11/10/2016

The 2016 Presidential election was arguably the most contentious, unpredictable, and politically polarizing race in this nation's history. The contours of the electoral map changed by the hour in the days leading up to...more

Taking a Closer Look at the New Federal Contractor "Blacklisting" Obligations

Littler on 9/1/2016

On August 25, 2016, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council published in the Federal Register its highly anticipated Final Rule regarding the so-called "blacklisting" procedures for federal contractors President...more

Is That Recruiting Technology Compliant?

Zelle LLP on 2/11/2016

There is some cool recruiting tech out there. Swipe, for example, a Tinder-like mobile app, allows hiring managers to “swipe right” for the applicants they are interested in. It also has a built in job-matching algorithm....more

The Big Move Toward Big Data in Employment

Littler on 8/5/2015

The world of Big Data has arrived, and it is beginning to affect employers and their decision-making in ways undreamed of even a few years ago. Employers can access more information about their applicant pool than ever...more

Affirmative Action Alert: Agencies issue proposals on "Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces" Executive Order

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 6/3/2015

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council and the U.S. Department of Labor issued simultaneous proposals to implement President Obama’s Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. The Executive Order, signed last July,...more

Congress Passes FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Bill: What it Means for Labor and Employment Agencies

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/15/2014

Narrowly averting a federal government shutdown, on December 13 in a rare Saturday evening session the Senate passed the massive 1600 page, $1.1 trillion FY2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill that will fund government operations...more

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