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Employment Law Update: EEO-1 Employer Reporting Is Due June 24, 2025

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Employers remain obligated to complete and submit their EEO-1 reports, even with the current administration’s aggressive reworking of the anti-discrimination landscape. Federal mandatory reporting requirements require private...more

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President Trump’s Executive Order Rescinding Executive Order 11246: What Does this Mean for Federal Contractors?

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On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”...more

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What the New “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Trump Executive Order Means for Employers

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Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has issued numerous executive orders, which may have an impact on employers. In his first full day in office, President Trump issued an executive...more

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Trump Revokes Executive Order 11246 Requiring Affirmative Action

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

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President Trump Issues Sweeping Executive Orders Aimed at DEI

In his inaugural address on Monday, January 20, 2025, President Trump declared, “We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.” In the days that followed, President Trump has proceeded to issue a series of...more

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Are Changes Coming to EDGE in Ohio?

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On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023). This decision upended decades of precedent and held that race-conscious...more

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OFCCP Settles Hiring Discrimination Case with LandCare USA, LLC

The Austin, Texas location of LandCare USA, LLC (the “Company”), a company providing landscaping services, recently entered into a conciliation agreement with the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) to...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

B&H Foto: From Lawsuit To $3 Million Consent Decree

In February 2016, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs filed an administrative complaint against B&H Foto, the largest non-chain photo and video equipment store in the United States. The Complaint alleged that...more

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OFCCP Files Suit Against Federal Subcontractor Staffing Agency for Alleged Discrimination and Harassment

In a complaint filed on June 17, 2015, OFCCP alleges that a staffing agency that supplies laborers to work for federal prime construction contractors at the prime contractors’ construction sites, permitted the prime...more

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Can You Discriminate Against a Company's Race? Fourth Circuit Says Yes, Grants Standing to Sue for Racial Discrimination

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Owners, contractors and other recipients of federal funds be aware: when construction or other federally-funded contracts sour, not only can contracting parties file lawsuits claiming breach of contract, but if the...more

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OFCCP Flexes its Muscle with Threats of Term Debarment

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently announced a significant monetary settlement of a complaint alleging hiring discrimination by a federal contractor. In this complaint, the agency alleged that...more

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