On August 31, 2020, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published its annual update to the minimum wage for federal government contractors. As of January 1, 2021, employees performing services on or in...more
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) settled a claim of gender pay discrimination against Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc., a pharmaceutical company, on August 18, 2020. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance...more
On June 24, 2020, a Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) denied J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s motion for summary judgment seeking to dismiss an OFCCP enforcement action....more
Is Virginia the new California? That may be an exaggeration, but in April 2020 the Commonwealth took major steps away from its historically pro-employer climate to provide employees and independent contractors with new...more
The frank discussion during the roundtable highlighted contractors’ ongoing concerns regarding OFCCP’s approach to the evaluation of the compensation of small groups of specialized employees and smaller AAP groups....more
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
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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
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On September 10, 2019, the California Senate passed AB5, a sweeping bill to control the use of independent contractors in the nation’s largest state. With the California Assembly concurring in the Senate’s amendments to the...more
9/18/2019
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In a welcome development for federal government contractors, OFCCP issued its second opinion letter on July 22, 2019. The opinion letter endorsed a process through which contractors can submit proposed pay analysis groups...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
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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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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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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
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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
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Trump Administration ,
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