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NYC Employers Prohibited from Discriminating Based on Height or Weight

On May 26, 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed into law a bill that expands the protections offered by the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL).  Effective November 22, 2023, the NYCHRL will prohibit discrimination...more

New York City Issues Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Human Resources

On April 6, 2023, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued its final rule interpreting the City’s Local Law 144 regulating the use of "automated employment decision tools," which went into effect...more

OFCCP Proposes New Scheduling Letter Increasing the Documentation Federal Contractors Must Provide in Audits

On November 21, 2022, OFCCP proposed a new Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing that will greatly increase the amount and specificity of documents and information that federal government contractors must provide in...more

Three Steps Employers Everywhere Should Take as New York City’s Pay Transparency Law Takes Effect

On November 1, 2022, job postings for positions in New York City – including remote positions that can be performed in New York City – must include a salary range listing the minimum and maximum salary or hourly wage amounts...more

OFCCP Directive on Compliance Evaluation Procedures Signals Renewed Focus on Enforcement

On March 31, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued its second Directive, No. 2022-02, of the Biden Administration.  The new Directive implements both procedural and substantive changes to...more

OFCCP Issues Opinion Letter Protecting “Controversial” Religious Beliefs

On January 8, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an opinion letter on “Legal Protections for Religious Liberty in the Workplace.” The opinion letter builds on OFCCP’s recent regulations...more

OFCCP Seeks to Provide Certainty to Contractors By Issuing Final Rule on Compliance Evaluation Procedures

On November 10, 2020, OFCCP published its Final Rule on “Nondiscrimination Obligations of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors: Procedures to Resolve Potential Employment Discrimination.”  We previously covered OFCCP’s...more

Virginia Passes Significant Changes to State Employment Discrimination Law

On April 11, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Values Act (“Act”), which significantly strengthens the Virginia Human Rights Act’s prohibition on employment discrimination....more

OFCCP Proposes Rulemaking to Codify Compliance Evaluation Procedures

On December 30, 2019, OFCCP issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Nondiscrimination Obligations of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors: Procedures to Resolve Potential Employment Discrimination....more

OFCCP Issues Technical Assistance Guide for Educational Institutions and Trains its Sights on the Tenure Selection Process

Maintaining its recent focus on compliance issues particular to educational institutions, OFCCP published a technical assistance guide for educational institutions on October 11, 2019.  The guide follows a flurry of OFCCP...more

OFCCP Announces Three Multimillion Dollar Bias Settlements

The OFCCP opened the month of October by announcing three multimillion dollar settlements with major government contractors.  The agency entered into early resolution conciliation agreements with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and...more

OFCCP Proposes Rule to Clarify Religious Exemption

On August 15, 2019, the Office of Federal Compliance Contract Programs (OFCCP) proposed a new rule broadening the religious exemption that applies to its equal employment opportunity regulations. ...more

EEOC Component 2 Online Filing System Opens on Schedule

On July 15, 2019, the EEOC opened its online filing system for the submission of EEO-1 Component 2 pay data.  Employers that are required to file EEO-1 reports can now submit pay data broken down by job category, pay band,...more

OFCCP Plans Three Proposed Rulemakings in 2019

On May 22, 2019, the Trump administration released its Spring 2019 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.  This agenda reports on the actions that administrative agencies plan to issue in both the near and...more

Employers Must Prep for New EEOC Data Reporting Rule

Employers who thought that they had received a respite from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s proposed requirement to report information about employees' pay and hours worked when submitting their annual...more

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