News & Analysis as of

Affirmative Action Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Hospitals

K&L Gates LLP

Health Care Triage: OFCCP Enforcement in the Health Care Space

K&L Gates LLP on

Health Care partners Sarah Carlins and Jackie Hoffman interview Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety partner Craig Leen in this episode of Triage, recorded in collaboration with our Working Wise podcast. As the former...more

Williams Mullen

The OFCCP Calls a Moratorium on Enforcement Activities Against TRICARE Providers

Williams Mullen on

On May 7, 2014, a Directive of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) placed a five-year moratorium on enforcement activities regarding health care providers that are TRICARE subcontractors. TRICARE is...more

Littler

Does OFCCP Have Jurisdiction Over TRICARE Participants? Stay Tuned. The Answer Lies Years In The Future

Littler on

Over the past several years, we have written repeatedly about the efforts of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (the OFCCP) to gain jurisdiction over health care providers based solely on providers'...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Affirmative Action Comes to a Hospital Near You

Does the OFCCP have jurisdiction over hospitals that contract to provide medical services to members of the military? We hoped we were done with this issue when the Congress enacted the National Defense Authorization Act...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Let the Seller Beware: Hospitals Treating HMO Patients Employed by the Federal Government are “Subcontractors” Governed by...

When a health plan/HMO ("Plan") provides group health coverage to employers, including the federal government, the hospitals that treat federal employees under a contract with the Plan are government "subcontractors" subject...more

BakerHostetler

District Court Sides With DOL in Dispute Over Whether Healthcare Providers Are Government Contractors

BakerHostetler on

In a significant victory for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently found providers of healthcare services are subject to federal equal employment opportunity...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Court Ruling May Subject Hospitals and Health Care Providers to OFCCP Regulation

Hospitals, health care providers, and managers of other businesses across the country may be surprised to learn that under a new federal court ruling, their organizations may now qualify as government contractors or...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Care Providers Beware — You May Be a Governmental Contractor

Foley & Lardner LLP on

Executive Order 11246 (Order) was first issued in September 1965 by President Johnson. Its purpose was to prohibit race, religion, color, and national origin discrimination by federal contractors and subcontractors and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Health Care Services Providers to Federal Health Plan Members Subject to Federal Affirmative Action Compliance Audit

On March 30, the US District Court for the District of Columbia held that three University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-affiliated hospitals were federal subcontractors to an HMO that provided a managed care health plan to...more

Cozen O'Connor

Hospitals Providing Medical Care to Federal Employees Covered by HMOs May Be Subject to OFCCP’s Affirmative Action and Other...

Cozen O'Connor on

Over the years, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which enforces affirmative action and equal opportunity regulations for federal contractors and subcontractors, has tried to assert jurisdiction over...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Health Care Case Makes Clear That Specific Contractual Language Is Not Necessary for OFCCP Jurisdiction

Three Pittsburgh hospitals have been found to be federal subcontractors subject to the jurisdiction of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) because of the medical services they provide to a Health...more

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance...

Federal District Court Holds that OFCCP Has Jurisdiction Over Hospitals That Provide Services to HMOs Retained by Federal...

Earlier this week, the federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that three hospitals providing medical services through an HMO to U.S. government employees are “subcontractors” subject to OFCCP’s...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Healthcare Provider Does Not Have OFCCP Affirmative Action Obligations Arising Out of TRICARE

Holland & Knight LLP on

On October 19, 2012, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board concluded that Florida Hospital of Orlando did not have federal contractor affirmative action obligations arising out of its participation in TRICARE...more

13 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide