DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
DE Under 3: OMB Announced Finalized Overhaul to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
DE Under 3: OFCCP Resurrects Proposal for Monthly CC-257 Employment Utilization Reports for Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: FAR Council Submitted for OMB Approval Proposed Rule on “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting”
DE Under 3: Surprises Lurk Throughout OMB's 2023 Spring Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Controversial “Pre-Enforcement Notice & Conciliation Procedures” Final Rule Coming Soon
DE Under 3: President Biden Issued "Modernizing Regulatory Review" Executive Order
DE Under 3: OMB’s Initial Proposal to Overhaul Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collections
DE Under 3: OMB Publishes Its Fall 2022 Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: Big Changes Coming to OFCCP's Supply & Service Contractor ICRs
DE Under 3: Employment Poster Requirements & the U.S. DOJ’s First-Ever Criminal Anti-Trust Prosecution
DE Under 3: Data Gathering & Data Delivery
DE Under 3: New Data Collection Burdens, NLRB’s Ruling Regarding Union Election Dismissals, and OMB’s Tech Modernization Fund
Biden’s Modernizing Regulatory Review – A New Paradigm?
DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Is it the End of the EB-5 World as We Know it? How to Prepare for Potential Changes
I-14: Update on EEO-1 and I-9 Forms, Employer Obligations After a Hurricane or Other Natural Disaster, and Attorney Jason Barsanti on Meal and Rest Breaks
Monday, April 13, 2024: Contractors Have Second Opportunity to Comment on OFCCP’s Supply & Service Contractor Portal Information Collection - OFCCP published in the Federal Register Notice of a 30-day public comment period...more
Tuesday, February 27, 2024: U.S. OPM & OMB Jointly Published First Ever Strategic Plan on Hiring Military Spouses - Pursuant to an Executive Order (“EO) President Biden issued last summer, the U.S. Office of Personnel...more
Proposed Version of Reinstated Form Would Have Multiple Changes- In a move perhaps akin to a vampire or zombie story, OFCCP is seeking public comments regarding its sudden proposal (not mentioned in its Semi-Annual...more
Aerospace, defense, and security businesses are subject to a myriad of regulations and operational requirements that are constantly changing. These include things like SBA rules for credit for small businesses and...more
You heard it here first – in this OFCCP Week in Review Exclusive, our experts are dishing on the FAR Council's notice of proposed rulemaking regarding pay equity and transparency, and why federal contractors may want to...more
To avoid displacement of current service employees, the final rule will require contractors and their subcontractors to offer qualified employees a right of first refusal of employment under successor contracts. President...more
Tuesday, December 5, 2023: JOLTS Report – Job Openings Decreased by 617k in September, Rate Decreased to 5.3% - Confirming that the U.S. jobs market is continuing to shrink (as the Federal Reserve hopes to help tame...more
Tuesday, November 28, 2023: DE Talk Podcast Focused on Veterans Employment Tools - With roughly 250,000 servicemembers transitioning to civilian life each year, veteran hiring initiatives have become an essential focus for...more
Tuesday, November 21, 2023: US DOL Inspector General’s Office Announced Report Citing IT Modernization & Security Concerns - The U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) announced on X/Twitter...more
The third quarter had government contractors staring down the possibility of a government shutdown while also contending with some significant regulatory developments. We review some of those developments below....more
Wednesday, November 8, 2023: US DOL Honored 859 Civilian Employers with 2023 HIRE Vets Medallion Awards - Corresponding with Veterans Day 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans Employment and Training Service...more
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” (the “EO”), the first executive order directly addressing artificial...more
Shutdown Showdown. Rather than hurtling into a federal government shutdown, this week has been more of a slow, gradual, depressing slide into the shutdown, as it became apparent this week that last-minute measures to keep the...more
Tuesday, August 1, 2023: JOLTS Report – Job Openings Decreased by 34k in June, Rate Steady at 5.8% Official logo for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)The number of job openings in June was 9,582,000 – a small...more
Tuesday, June 27, 2023: At 11th Hour, OFCCP Made Changes to Contractor Portal FAQ - Update Made Two Days Prior to Certification Deadline - Thursday, June 29 “Deadline” Not Extended - Adding to the existing...more
Thursday, May 18, 2023: Illinois Set to Become First U.S. State to Count Arab Americans When Collecting Public Data - Federal Government Also Considering Adding This Reporting Category - The Illinois legislature passed...more
Monday, April 17, 2023: OFCCP Released the First 20,000 EEO-1 Files to The Public - EXCLUSIVE: OFCCP Has Also Proposed A Schedule To Resolve Contractor Objections To Disclosure - The most substantive action pertaining to...more
Friday, April 7, 2023: OLMS Submitted for OMB Review its Final Rule to Revise Union Persuader Reports to “Out” Federal Contractors - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (“OLMS”) submitted to...more
January 11, 2023: U.S. DOL Submitted Proposed Rule to Clarify That WIOA’s Sex-Based Discrimination Prohibition Includes Sexual Orientation - Proposal Would Also Cover Abortion & Clarify Outreach Requirements to Include...more
In January, the OMB implemented the following new policies designed to strengthen the federal contracting system. On January 10, 2023, the OMB issued a memorandum on the subject of Strengthening Support for Federal...more
SBA Releases Preview of New HUBZone Maps Effective July 1, 2023 - HUBZone contractors have been anxiously awaiting updates to the HUBZone maps. In 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) extended the “freeze” on the...more
New Congressional Research Service Reports Explain “Holman Rule” By a 220 – 213 essentially party-line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its procedural rules package (H.Res.5) that includes the “Holman Rule.”...more
Wednesday, November 30, 2022: U.S. IRS & Treasury Department Published Notice on Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship Requirements for Enhanced Tax Benefits Under Inflation Reduction Act - U.S. DOL Wage & Hour Division Seeking...more
Monday, December 5, 2022: EEOC’s Union Settled Allegations Re Post-Pandemic Return to Work in the Office Policy - Republican Legislators Voiced Concern that EEOC’s Strategic Plan Did Not Address Return to Work in the Office...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Cynthia L. Hackerott. In today’s edition,...more