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Policy Matters Newsletter - February 2023

Groundhog Day: Second Proposed Wage and Hour Boss Stuck By Senate HELP. After the Senate voted down a cloture motion to advance the nomination of Dr. David Weil to return as U.S. DOL Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”)...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - January 2023

Labor Employment Policy Highlights of 2022. This past term saw more legislation pass through congressional chambers at a more efficient clip than we have seen in quite some time. That does not mean that federal agencies were...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - November 2022

Midterm Dust Finally Settles (For The Most Part). What do we know as of the publication of this newsletter? First, the results were not close to as red as most historians ventured, but republicans were still able to flip...more

OFCCP Replaces Controversial Directive on Contractor Pay Equity Audits

Seyfarth Synopsis. On Thursday, August 18, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) replaced its Directive 2022-01, entitled “Pay Equity Audits” (effective March 15, 2022, the “March Directive”), with a...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - July 2022

Annnnd We're Back: Legislative Update. We appreciate this audience bearing with us as this newsletter has been on a short hiatus in light of some scheduling issues. During that brief respite numerous different pieces of...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - June 2022

RISE and SHINE Act. It is just a discussion draft, so need to get too excited at the prospect of more bi-partisanship (maybe this author is alone in his excitement over that potential), but recently, Chair Patty Murray and...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - May 2022 # 2

DOL’s 2023 Priorities, Per Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. Additional personnel topped Labor Secretary Marty Walsh’s wish list for 2023 as he laid out next year’s proposed budget at a hearing in front of the Subcommittee on...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - May 2022

Uniting for Ukraine. While, currently, there is more than enough political news to support the 24 hours news cycle, the ongoing crises in Ukraine continues to be one of the top beats. The U.S. has been in lockstep with its...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - April 2022

COVID-19 Relief? It has been a nice respite not touching on COVID-19 recently in this space. But COVID-19 will likely remain an issue employers must front for the foreseeable future. To that end, on April 07, the House of...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - November 2021

OSHA: From The Back Page To The Headlines. If asked in January of 2020 what exactly OSHA is and what it does within the Department of Labor, we would venture that the majority of PMN readers would not have a completely...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - October 2021 #2

President Biden Calls On Congress To Eliminate Subminimum Pay For Disabled Workers. The White House has called on Congress to eliminate a program under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows employers to...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - March 2021

Education and Labor Subcommittee Hearing on Important Employment Legislation. As we noted here, on Thursday, March 18th the Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing entitled...more

Policy Matters Newsletter – February 2021

The Parliamentarian Has Spoken: Minimum Wage Can’t Be Raised Through Reconciliation. At this point, readers of this newsletter are assuredly aware of the substantive contours and the procedural hurdles Joe Biden’s COVID-19...more

Seyfarth Policy Matters Newsletter - December 2020

The NLRB Will Look, And Act, Much Differently Under A Biden Administration.  Joe Biden has reiterated, again and again, that supporting organized labor will sit atop his agenda. The board is currently operating with a vacant...more

Breaking News: EEOC Notifies Employers Of Required Reporting Obligation for 2017 and 2018 Component 2 Data Reports by September...

Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 2, 2019, the Federal Register included an unpublished version of the EEOC’s announcement that it will collect 2017 and 2018 Component 2 data from employers as part of the Revised EEO-1 collection...more

BREAKING NEWS: District Court Orders Employers to File EEO-1 Component 2 Data by September 30, 2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Today, the District Court for the District of Columbia issued its ruling regarding the timeframe for collecting pay and hours data in connection with the Revised EEO-1 Report. Ruling from the bench, the...more

EEOC Proposes EEO-1 Pay Collection Timeline to Court: If Approved, Employers to Submit Pay Data by September 30, 2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Pursuant to ongoing litigation, the EEOC was required to submit a proposed timeline for the collection of pay and hours data in connection with the Revised EEO-1. ...more

Breaking News: Update to Seyfarth Alert Regarding the Stay of “Component 2” of the Revised EEO-1 Report

Seyfarth Synopsis: In update to our alert yesterday, Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic released a statement regarding the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ (“OIRA”), decision to stay the implementation of the pay data...more

Breaking News: Revised EEO-1 “Component 2” Stayed Effective Immediately; Component 1 Still in Effect

Seyfarth Synopsis: Yesterday, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (“OIRA”), a division of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), announced that it has suspended “Component 2” of the revised EEO-1 Report. ...more

ALJ Narrows OFCCP’s Request for Google Employee and Pay Data

Seyfarth Synopsis: Last Friday, an administrative law judge limited the amount of information that the OFCCP may seek from Google in its on-going compliance audit because the agency failed demonstrate relevance or justify the...more

Congress in Process of Passing Disapproval Resolution of Blacklisting Regulations

On February 2, 2017, by a vote of 236 to 187, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a joint resolution of disapproval to block the Final Rule implementing President Obama’s Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe...more

Texas Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction to Government Contractors Challenging “Blacklisting” Executive Orders

Seyfarth Synopsis: The first of several anticipated challenges to Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” has resulted in a preliminary injunction staying the implementation of some - but not all - aspects of...more

Breaking News: New EEOC Pay Report Proposed For Employers in 2017

If there was any doubt that pay equity is major risk area for employers, that doubt should now be erased. This morning, on the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the EEOC made a startling...more

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