Today is National Equal Pay Day. They say that the average woman has to work from January 1, 2023, through March 12, 2024, to make as much money as a man who worked only in calendar year 2023. While there are many...more
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Wage and Hour
Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has signed into law important changes to employers’ obligations to notify North Carolina employees about their wages. The changes to the North Carolina Wage and Hour Act (available here, beginning at the...more
Doing its part to save the planet, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has posted its most recent Corporate Scheduling Announcement List online. Corporate Scheduling Announcements used to be "snail-mailed" to...more
The hearing on the lawsuit filed by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs against Google concluded on Friday, May 26, in San Francisco. As I’ve reported , the OFCCP is seeking historical pay data as well as names...more
*Donnybrook: Named for the Donnybrook Fair near Dublin, “a notoriously disorderly event, held annually from 1204 until the middle of the 19th century.” Meaning a “free-for-all; brawl; a usually public quarrel or...more
I posted in January about a lawsuit filed by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs against Google, seeking to force Google to provide detailed information about its equal employment practices and affirmative...more
The U.S. Senate has passed, 49-48, a resolution of disapproval of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. The resolution of disapproval passed the House in February.
If the President signs the resolution, as is expected,...more
Every year, typically in the fall, federal contractors across the nation receive scheduling letters from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs informing them that they have been selected for compliance reviews....more
Federal contractors, will asking applicants to voluntarily self-identify by race — a request that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs requires you to make — be used against you in a hiring-discrimination...more
A recent complaint filed by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs illustrates that it’s not only federal contractors who need to be sure they comply with affirmative action requirements, but also those who...more
Federal contractors, be warned: If you have not properly reviewed (and validated!) any testing used as part of your hiring process, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs may take issue . . . and seek to collect...more
And you don’t have the right to remain silent.
On July 1 the federal Office of Management and Budget published the OFCCP’s revised Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing that is issued to federal contractors to begin...more