On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In Dobbs, the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s abortion restrictions making most abortion...more
7/6/2022
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Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Protection ,
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Healthcare ,
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Pregnancy ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Roe v Wade ,
SCOTUS ,
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Wage and Hour
On May 20, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL), which identifies 400 federal supply and service contractor and subcontractor...more
Maryland recently joined nine other states (and the District of Columbia) in providing employees in the state with a right to paid family and medical leave. Although employer contributions to the paid family and medical...more
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
The emerging trend of laws banning inquiries into salary history and promoting pay transparency will soon expand to federal contractors. On March 15, 2022, President Biden issued an Executive Order titled “Executive Order on...more
3/18/2022
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Pay ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Pay Gap ,
Pay Transparency ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Wage and Hour
On March 15, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued its first directive of the Biden Administration to address the requirement that federal government contractors and subcontractors perform...more
On February 17, 2022, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking updating USDA’s Agriculture Acquisition Regulation (AGAR), the agency’s counterpart to the Federal Acquisition...more
3/8/2022
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Blacklist ,
Certification Requirements ,
Contract Terms ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Labor Regulations ,
NPRM ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
USDA
In a rare showing of bipartisanship, the Senate passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, which allows employees or others to escape mandatory arbitration clauses in connection with any...more
2/11/2022
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Arbitration ,
Arbitration Agreements ,
Class Action ,
Class Action Arbitration Waivers ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Federal Arbitration Act ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Pending Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Sexual Assault ,
Sexual Harassment
Beginning on May 15, 2022, employers in New York City must begin listing salary ranges in any advertisements for jobs, promotions, or transfer opportunities. The new measure is the latest in a nationwide trend of state and...more
1/31/2022
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Compensation & Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Ads ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
New Regulations ,
Pay Transparency ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On November 18, 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14055 that requires successor contractors under federal government service contracts to offer employment to certain employees of the predecessor contractor whose...more
12/14/2021
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Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Retention ,
Employees ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Service Contract Act ,
Service Contracts ,
Successors
On December 7, 2021, Judge R. Stan Baker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia enjoined the federal government from enforcing Executive Order 14042’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal...more
12/8/2021
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Essential Workers ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Lack of Authority ,
Motion To Enjoin ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On December 2, 2021, OFCCP announced that its Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface (also referred to as the Contractor Portal) is now operative. Through the Contractor Portal, federal government supply and...more
On November 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky threw a wrench into the federal government’s efforts to enforce Executive Order 14042’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate against federal...more
12/1/2021
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Biden Administration ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Federal Contractors ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Lack of Authority ,
Motion To Enjoin ,
Popular ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Tenth Amendment ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On November 16, 2021, the Department of Labor published a Final Rule implementing Executive Order 14026 and raising the federal contractor minimum wage to $15 per hour under most federal government contracts entered into...more
On November 18, 2021, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “COVID Vaccination Leave Emergency Amendment Act of 2021” (the “Act”). The Act applies to nearly all private employers with employees in the District....more
11/23/2021
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Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Labor Regulations ,
Local Ordinance ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Effective January 26, 2022, New York will greatly expand whistleblower protections provided to employees and independent contractors, creating new compliance challenges and avenues of liability for employers....more
On November 9, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a proposed rule rescinding its December 2020 Final Rule broadening the religious exemption from Executive Order 11246’s...more
11/16/2021
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Civil Rights Act ,
Comment Period ,
Federal Contractors ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
OFCCP ,
Proposed Rules ,
Public Comment ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Religious Exemption ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
On November 10, 2021, the Biden Administration announced another change to the deadline for federal contractors to become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as required by Executive Order 14042. ...more
11/12/2021
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Deadlines ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Essential Workers ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Infectious Diseases ,
OSHA ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On November 4, 2021, the Biden Administration issued a Fact Sheet announcing the release of its long-awaited Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19...more
11/5/2021
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Essential Workers ,
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Federal Employees ,
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Workplace Safety
On September 24, 2021, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) published its expected guidance regarding the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal government contractors. ...more
9/27/2021
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Essential Workers ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
In an attempt to contain the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden issued two Executive Orders on September 9, 2021 that mandate COVID-19 vaccines for federal government employees and employees of federal government...more
9/10/2021
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Essential Workers ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On September 1, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it would “evaluate” using compensation data reported by federal contractors in annual EEO-1 filings to guide its enforcement...more
9/7/2021
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EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Labor Regulations ,
OFCCP ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On July 29, 2021, the Biden Administration announced a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for certain employees of federal government contractors. ...more
7/30/2021
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Contractors ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Masks ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Public Health ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On July 21, 2021, the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement President Biden’s Executive Order 14026 increasing the minimum wage for certain employees of federal government contractors and...more
On July 1, 2021, OFCCP issued its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) scheduling 750 federal contractor and subcontractor establishments for compliance evaluations in fiscal year 2021. ...more