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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Certification Requirements ,
Contract Terms ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
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Labor Regulations ,
NPRM ,
Proposed Rules ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
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Reporting Requirements ,
USDA
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
Public company directors, who are under constant threat of claims, received welcome news earlier this month. On December 9, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that corporate directors...more
1/2/2020
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CEOs ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Directors ,
Energy Projects ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Internal Reporting ,
Investment ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Investors ,
Liquidity ,
Personal Liability ,
Public Statements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Renewable Energy ,
Renewable Energy Investments ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Retaliation ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Securities Violations ,
Shareholder Litigation ,
Subsidiaries ,
SunEdison ,
Termination ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
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
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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 April 3, 2019, the EEOC announced in a court filing that it will require employers to submit 2018 EEO-1 pay and hours data by September 30, 2019....more
4/8/2019
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EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
On March 4, 2019 Judge Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling that immediately reinstated the EEO-1 pay data reporting requirement....more
3/19/2019
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EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
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
In Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit adopted a limited, plain meaning construction of the types of reports that are protected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s (SOX) whistleblower...more
3/4/2019
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Appeals ,
Bio-Rad Laboratories ,
Bribery ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Reversal ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers
On February 1, 2019, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that it would postpone the opening of the submission period for EEO-1 survey responses until “early March 2019” and extend the deadline for...more
2/8/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Government Shutdown ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Trump Administration ,
Wage and Hour