During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the Maryland legislature passed over 600 pieces of legislation, many of which relate to employment issues. Several of these bills, including ones that prohibit use of facial...more
5/27/2020
/ Employee Privacy Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Governor Hogan ,
Grooming Policies ,
Hairstyle Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Interviews ,
Job Applicants ,
Mini-Warn Acts ,
Notice Requirements ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Salary/Wage History ,
State Bans ,
State Labor Laws ,
State Legislatures ,
Voluntary Reduction in Force
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released additional guidance regarding the new EEO-1 Component 2 data reporting requirements for employers who were involved in mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs in 2017...more
8/7/2019
/ Complex Corporate Transactions ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Professional Employer Organization ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
Employers would be forgiven for feeling figurative whiplash from all of the developments surrounding the EEO-1 in recent weeks. After understanding they would not have to submit pay data with their EEO-1 submissions (referred...more
5/6/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Order to Lift Stay ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
On April 29, 2019, the EEOC issued the following statement regarding the recent EEO-1 developments:
Notice of Immediate Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection -
EEO-1 filers should begin preparing to submit...more
5/1/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Order to Lift Stay ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
Yesterday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan held a hearing on the pay data component of the EEO-1 form (“Component 2”). In March, Judge Chutkan lifted the stay on collection of Component 2 data that had been imposed by the...more
Quick Hit: Data released by OFCCP shows the agency obtained $16.4 million in monetary relief for roughly 12,000 class members in FY 2018. While that is a drop from the record year recovery of $23.9 million in FY 2017, it is...more
Earlier this week, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) announced that it entered into a conciliation agreement with Humana Inc. (“Humana”) to resolve allegations that Humana paid hundreds of women at...more
Yesterday, the 2017 EEO-1 Survey became available. Private employers with 100 or more employees and federal government contractors or subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of $50,000 or more...more
1/26/2018
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Payroll Records ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Wage and Hour
Oregon recently enacted the Oregon Equal Pay Act of 2017 (H.B. 2005) (the “Act”). The Act broadly expands Oregon’s existing equal pay protections and imposes new restrictions on Oregon employers’ use of salary histories in...more
7/24/2017
/ Equal Pay Act ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
New Hires ,
New Legislation ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Protected Class ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Salary/Wage History ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that it had finalized its rule for new EEO-1 pay equity reporting requirements. The final rule has not yet been published in the Federal...more
10/6/2016
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Payroll Records ,
Reporting Requirements ,
W-2 ,
Wage and Hour
Maryland’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (the “Act”) is scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2016. The Act amends Maryland’s existing Equal Pay law, expanding its protections against wage discrimination on the basis of sex...more
9/22/2016
/ Anti-Steering Rules ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Exceptions ,
Gender Identity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Transparency ,
Posting Requirements ,
Private Right of Action ,
Remedies ,
Wage and Hour
The EEOC published its revised EEO-1 Rule, responding to a number of comments submitted following the issuance of its proposed rule in February 2016. As a reminder, the EEOC proposed revising its EEO-1 report to require...more
On November 19, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) announced that it reached a settlement with nine locations of a government contractor “to remedy systemic...more
Earlier this year, we reported that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) issued a proposed rule to revise and replace the sex discrimination guidance it issued in 1970 and clarify federal contractors’...more
11/2/2015
/ Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Opportunities ,
Equal Pay ,
Family Status Discrimination ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Gender Identity ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
OMB ,
Pregnancy Discrimination ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Harassment