Fisher Phillips is providing a collection of our recent Insights on various topics as a convenient summary for those wanting a good overview of certain areas of law. The first collection: a review of recent developments in...more
Beware the Ides of March, as they say. On March 15, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released Directive 2022-01, which, according to the agency, aims to clarify OFCCP’s perceived authority to...more
During the first State of the Union address with both houses of Congress present since the pandemic began, President Biden made brief references to his ambitious workplace law agenda, touching on several labor and employment...more
3/4/2022
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Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Labor Relations ,
Minimum Wage ,
Paid Leave ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
State of the Union ,
Union Organizers ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
Employers conducting internal pay equity audits now have a roadmap for ensuring that their pay equity audits remain confidential in the wake of pay equity litigation. Thanks to a recent federal court ruling from an Oregon...more
10/30/2020
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Audits ,
Collective Actions ,
Confidential Information ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work-Product Doctrine
In an announcement sure to please federal contractors, the OFCCP announced Friday that it would not use any of the pay data gathered by the EEOC in this year’s expanded collection efforts for enforcement purposes. The...more
A federal judge yesterday ordered the EEOC to continue its pay data collection efforts and complete its efforts into next year, ruling that an insufficient number of employers have submitted their revised EEO-1 reports....more
Citing the high burden on employers and the unproven usefulness of the program, the EEOC announced yesterday that it will halt further collection of pay data during future EEO-1 reporting cycles. While you still need to turn...more
In a court filing Wednesday, April 3, 2019, the EEOC suggested that employers have until September 30, 2019 to turn over pay data as part of their revised EEO-1 reporting obligations. It is uncertain yet as to whether the...more
The agency overseeing federal contractors issued a revised pay bias directive on Friday that somewhat loosens the standards by which it will evaluate employer compensation practices during compliance investigations. The...more
8/28/2018
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Compensation ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Statistical Analysis ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced revisions to its planned pay data rule yesterday, but unfortunately the revisions do not address the majority of concerns employers had about the original...more