The newly imposed deadline is fast approaching for Government Contractors required to develop annual Affirmative Action Plans (AAPs) to certify that they have in fact created such plans. Supply and service federal contractors...more
Effective July 1, 2021 Virginia employers became subject to a new state overtime law: the Virginia Overtime Wage Act (VOWA) that makes overtime violations and employee misclassifications more costly for employers than the...more
On July 9, 2021, President Biden executed a broad Executive Order 14036 (“EO”) entitled Promoting Competition in the American Economy. Among other things, the EO will potentially have a great impact upon non-compete...more
Under federal law, all employers (including public, private, government and not-for–profit employers, and employment agencies) are required to report certain data about new employees hired within 20 days of the employee...more
On April 27, 2021 President Biden issued an executive order requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to pay a $15 minimum wage to workers on federal contracts and to federal contract workers with disabilities, and...more
As discussed in our blog “Virginia Takes the Lead in Adopting Workplace Safety Regulations for COVID-19,” in July 2020, Virginia became the first state to enact a temporary COVID-19 emergency workplace rule set to expire on...more
On September 22, 2018 the Department of Labor ("DOL") issued proposed regulations explaining how to determine whether a worker should be classified as an employee covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") or an...more
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other African Americans by police officers, many government contractors have undertaken social justice initiatives and increased training around unconscious or implicit bias. On...more
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On July 15, 2020, the Virginia Safety and Health Codes Board adopted the Emergency Temporary Standard, Infectious Disease Prevention, SARS-CoV2 Virus that Causes COVID-19 (ETS), making Virginia the first state to adopt...more
Effective July 1, 2020, Virginia’s employment laws are substantially changing to provide broader protections to employees in many areas. We previously summarized the Virginia Values Act (VVA), which goes into effect on July...more
Effective July 1, 2020, Virginia’s employment laws are substantially changing to provide broader protections to employees in many areas. We previously summarized the Virginia Values Act (VVA) here which goes into effect on...more
On April 11, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law the Virginia Values Act (VVA), which will subject employers with more than five employees to state claims for discrimination with increased damages. The new...more
On Monday, March 23, 2020, Governor Northam issued Executive Order 53 (“EO53”) ordering the statewide closure of recreational and educational businesses to the public, non-essential retail businesses, all K-12 schools for the...more
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Effective as of 10 p.m. on March 25, 2020, Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered cessation of all onsite operations of non-essential businesses that cannot be performed at home except for “Minimum Basic Operations.” The Order is...more
With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) causing Employers to switch to teleworking or temporarily shuttering their operations, government contractors have special challenges. Some employees of government contractors may not be...more
The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”), which is responsible for the regulatory oversight of Federal Government contractors and subcontractors regarding Equal Employment...more
Yesterday, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a much anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing to increase the salary threshold for the so-called “white collar” exemption from the minimum wage and...more
If you are a Government prime contractor or subcontractor working under an agreement worth at least $50,000, and you have at least 50 employees (part-time employees included), then March 31, 2019 should mean something to you....more