On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” Consistent with the EO titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI...more
1/27/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Compliance ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Race Discrimination ,
Trump Administration
WHAT: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a split decision in Nebraska v. Su holding that Executive Order (EO) 14026, commonly known as the $15 contractor minimum wage, exceeded the President’s authority...more
WHAT: Over a year after its notice of proposed rulemaking, the U.S Department of Labor (DOL) published its Final Rule Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) Regulations. The Final Rule spans hundreds of pages of...more
8/15/2023
/ Bureau of Labor Statistics ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Project ,
Davis-Bacon Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fringe Benefits ,
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) ,
Prevailing Wages ,
Service Contract Act ,
Wage and Hour
WHAT: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it has received a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all consolidated “Type 2” EEO-1 reports for federal...more
WHAT: The nondisplacement rule’s revival continues as the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has published its proposed rule to implement Executive Order (EO) 14055, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers under Service Contracts....more
What: Just before Thanksgiving, the Government took two actions likely to affect many federal service and construction contractors’ pricing and staffing decisions. The Biden Administration issued Executive Order (EO) 14055 to...more
12/2/2021
/ Acquisitions ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Retention ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
Joe Biden ,
Minimum Wage ,
Service Contract Act ,
Service Contracts
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced the annual increase in the minimum wage for contractor employees required by Executive Order (EO) 13658. The new rate, $11.25, will take effect on January 1,...more
WHAT: The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) published its proposed rule to implement Executive Order (EO) 14026, Increasing the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors. EO 14026, covered in our prior alert, requires increasing the...more
WHAT: As anticipated, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) on Wednesday raising the minimum wage to $15 for many employees of federal contractors, effective January 30, 2022. All agencies will need to incorporate...more
The McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act of 1965 (SCA) (also known as the Service Contract Labor Standards) continues to present challenges to government contractors, including both new and experienced industry players. As...more
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issued a revised class deviation, superseding Class Deviation 2021-O0001, issued on November 20, 2020 that implemented Executive Order 13950, Combating Race and Sex...more
WHAT: On December 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a final rule expanding the religious exemption from anti-discrimination laws for federal contractors. Issued by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance...more