In September of 2024, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) released a report titled What Good Looks Like: A Corporate Accountability Report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this report, CBC provided a scorecard on…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Navigating a compliance review (“audit”) with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) can be a complex and nerve-wracking experience for federal contractors. The process is often extensive, and the results can…
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/ Government Contracting
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to evolve in the workplace, legislation focusing on regulating such technologies is also becoming more common. A recent example comes from Illinois, where Governor JB…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently welcomed a new Deputy Director, Anupa Iyer Geevarghese, on September 3rd. Although an official announcement from OFCCP has not been…
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/ Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
In June 2023, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) and SFFA v. University of North Carolina (UNC), ruling 6-3 that the…
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/ Civil Rights, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
California’s Assembly Bill (AB) 2930 was introduced by the California State Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee in February 2024 and, if signed into law, will impose certain requirements on entities doing business…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
Our summer blog series contrasting “expert” versus “robot” approaches to pay equity ends this week as we discuss the role of legal counsel and the importance of establishing attorney–client privilege when conducting pay equity…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
Massachusetts has enacted a law requiring pay reporting by organizations with 100 or more employees in Massachusetts. This pay reporting is part of the Salary Range Transparency law that was signed by the Governor of…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Massachusetts has joined various other states in enacting a pay transparency law. Effective July 31, 2025, employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts must include a pay range in any advertisement or job posting used in…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On July 25, 2024, the Civil Rights Audit Standards (the Standards) were published by an independent committee led by PolicyLink, a leading national research and action institute dedicated to racial and economic equity and CapEQ,…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Our summer blog series contrasting “expert” versus “robot” approaches to pay equity continues this week as we discuss what happens after compensation data have been analyzed: investigating the results of the analysis and making…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
There has been a lot written about the recent Supreme Court decision reversing the 1984 decision in Chevron (Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984)) and the Chevron Doctrine that…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
In our second and previous installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches to conducting a pay-equity study, we described how the more traditional, consultant-led approaches (i.e., expert)…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On July 26th, OFCCP issued Directive 2024-01, which outlines new procedures for expedited conciliation, with the option to enter into an Expedited Resolution Conciliation Agreement (ERCA). Through the expedited conciliation…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
In our first installment of our summer blog series contrasting "expert” versus ”robot” approaches to conducting a pay-equity study, we described how the more traditional, consultant-led approaches (i.e., expert) differ from…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
