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
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
4/20/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bias ,
City of New York ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
Popular
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
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
11/2/2022
/ City of New York ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Ads ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
New Regulations ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Transparency ,
Wage and Hour
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
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
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
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
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
1/2/2020
/ Comment Period ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Federal Contractors ,
NPRM ,
OFCCP ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reviewability Determinations ,
Rulemaking 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
10/21/2019
/ Affirmative Action ,
Contractors ,
Disparate Treatment ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
New Guidance ,
OFCCP ,
Opinion Letter ,
Race Discrimination ,
Student Employees ,
Tenure ,
Town Hall Meetings ,
Wage and Hour
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
10/9/2019
/ Affirmative Action ,
Bank of America ,
Bias ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Conciliation ,
Dell ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FAAP ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Goldman Sachs ,
Hiring & Firing ,
OFCCP ,
Race Discrimination ,
Settlement ,
Statistical Analysis ,
Wage and Hour
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
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
7/19/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Filing Requirements ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
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
6/6/2019
/ Deregulation ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Federal Contractors ,
Health Care Providers ,
Moratorium ,
NPRM ,
OFCCP ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Religious Exemption ,
TRICARE ,
Trump Administration
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
3/15/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour