The 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection window opened on May 20, 2025, and the deadline to file the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is June 24, 2025. Filers should note that the collection window is shorter this year, and...more
5/30/2025
/ Civil Rights Act ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Identity ,
LGBTQ ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
In our previous post, we discussed the nationwide temporary restraining order issued by the United States District Court for the North District of Illinois that temporarily prevented the Department of Labor from requiring...more
4/18/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
First Amendment ,
Judicial Authority ,
Labor Reform ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Trump Administration
On March 27, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the Department of Labor (DOL) from requiring federal contractors and...more
4/16/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Funding ,
First Amendment ,
Government Agencies ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
TRO ,
Trump Administration
On March 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the appointment of Catherine Eschbach as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the agency charged with overseeing regulation and...more
4/4/2025
/ Administrative Appointments ,
Affirmative Action ,
Audits ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Merit-Based Point System ,
OFCCP ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Veterans
Following President Trump’s issuance of Executive Order 14148 on January 20, 2025, which rescinded 78 executive actions taken by Former President Biden, the President rescinded an additional slew of Biden-era executive...more
President Biden’s vaccination mandate for federal contractors remains under a nationwide injunction. In September 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14042, which directed federal agencies to require certain federal...more
The following dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of the federal vaccine mandates and their current legal status. To learn more about each mandate, follow the links to HR Law Watch articles. ...more
1/27/2022
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Federal Contractors ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Infectious Diseases ,
OSHA ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Safety
The following dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of the federal vaccine mandates and their current legal status. To learn more about each mandate, follow the links to HR Law Watch articles....more
The following dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of the federal vaccine mandates and their current legal status. To learn more about each mandate, follow the links to HR Law Watch articles....more
12/10/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Infectious Diseases ,
OSHA ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On December 7, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued an order enjoining the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors pursuant to Executive Order 14042 (Executive...more
This episode features a discussion of the current array of federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates: their effectiveness and requirements, the scope of their coverage, and what employers should consider in responding to them....more
12/6/2021
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Mandates ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Workers ,
OSHA ,
Vaccinations ,
Virus Testing ,
Workplace Safety
Many federal contractors already have an obligation to develop and maintain written Affirmative Action Plans. Now, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced that those same companies will be...more
Several new developments have come from the Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) this week....more
On Tuesday, April 27, President Biden signed an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a minimum of $15 an hour starting on March 30, 2022. After that, the order will continue to index the...more
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As one of his first official acts as the President of the United States, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal...more
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As one of his first official acts as the President of the United States, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government...more
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A California District Court issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that prevents the federal government from enforcing significant portions of President Donald Trump’s September 2020 Executive Order on...more
12/28/2020
/ Bias ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Training ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Race Relations ,
Sexual Stereotyping ,
Trump Administration
President Trump issued an Executive Order September 22, 2020, on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping that prohibits federal contractors and perhaps grant recipients from certain anti-bias employee training practices. In...more
On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping. It prohibits federal contractors from certain anti-bias employee training practices in order to “promote economy and...more
9/25/2020
/ Bias ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Training ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Race Relations ,
Sexual Stereotyping ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
The Trump administration's "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review" (Freeze Memo) instructs the heads of federal executive departments and agencies to send no regulation to the Office of Federal Register (OFR) until a presidential...more
2/22/2017
/ Affirmative Action ,
Blacklist ,
Conflicts of Interest ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Disability ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Dodd-Frank ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Register ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Fiduciary Rule ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Investment Adviser ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Minimum Salary ,
OFR ,
OSHA ,
Over-Time ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Ratio ,
Persuader Rules ,
Regulatory Agencies ,
Regulatory Freeze ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions ,
Workplace Injury ,
Workplace Safety
The Department of Labor (DOL) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for regulations under President Barack Obama's Executive Order 13706, establishing paid sick leave requirements for federal contractors. EO 13706,...more
3/1/2016
/ Comment Period ,
Davis-Bacon Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Minimum Wage ,
NPRM ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Sick Leave ,
Wage and Hour
President Obama has issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave per year to their employees. The White House anticipates that the requirement could benefit more than...more
On April 29, 2015, the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its third Annual Report for 2014, as mandated by Section 342(e) of the Dodd-Frank Act...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend the regulations implementing Executive Order 11246, which addresses affirmative action requirements for federal contractors and...more
On Thursday, July 31, 2014, President Obama signed an Executive Order called "Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces," requiring covered federal contractors and subcontractors to publicly report labor violations, to forgo the use of...more
8/6/2014
/ ADEA ,
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Barack Obama ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Mandatory Arbitration Clauses ,
OSHA ,
Subcontractors ,
Title VII