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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
#WorkforceWednesday®: EEOC/DOJ Joint DEI Guidance, EEOC Letters to Law Firms, OFCCP Retroactive DEI Enforcement - Employment Law This Week®
False Claims Act Insights - Can DE&I Initiatives Lead to Potential False Claims Act Liability?
How to Comply with Trump’s Executive Order, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
2025 Outlook: The Department of Health and Human Services Under the Second Trump Administration – Diagnosing Health Care
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DE Talk | If It’s Not in Writing, It Never Happened: Applicant Tracking & Recordkeeping Strategies to Ensure OFCCP Compliance
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The Informed Board Podcast | How Will Corporate DEI Policies Be Affected by the Supreme Court Ruling in the University Affirmative Action Cases?
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Employment Law Now VII-134-Panel Discussion on Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling and the Impact on Employer DEI Programs
DE Under 3: How to Lawfully Engage in Race-Based Employment Decisions
The Labor Law Insider: Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education
Business Better Podcast Episode: Is DEI at Risk? Considerations on the US Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action Programs
DE Under 3: 4 Implications Impacting Federal Contractors & Employers Following the SCOTUS Decision in the Harvard & UNC Cases
Key Takeaways - DOJ is reportedly conducting active False Claims Act investigations into federal contractors’ DEI hiring practices, using civil probes and document demands to examine compliance with federal nondiscrimination...more
Blog Overview: The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published an Information Collection Request on January 7, 2025, seeking reauthorization to enforce Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act...more
Disability self-identification has been in the spotlight lately, especially for federal contractors watching potential changes to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 503). However, in this changing...more
In the wake of a Dec. 2, 2025, analysis by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) of race-based programs awarded by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), educational institutions receiving or administering federal education...more
As 2025 comes to a close, the new year offers an opportunity to take a look back at the trends and developments that have shaped labor and employment law over the past year, and what it might indicate about the landscape in...more
On December 9, 2025, the Justice Department (“DOJ”) issued a final rule eliminating disparate impact liability from its enforcement regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the “Final Rule”), overturning a...more
The Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an interim final rule (IFR) modifying the regulation implementing the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concessions Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE)...more
On December 9, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a final rule rejecting the use of disparate-impact liability, i.e., holding entities liable for discrimination due to a policy’s disproportionate effect on a...more
On December 9, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice finalized revisions to its Title VI regulations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The updated rule narrows DOJ enforcement exclusively to cases involving intentional...more
The DOJ issued a final rule on Dec. 9, 2025, entitled “Rescinding Portions of Department of Justice Title VI Regulations to Conform More Closely with the Statutory Text and to Implement Executive Order 14281.” ...more
On December 10, 2025, the Department of Justice filed a complaint in Minnesota federal court against Minneapolis Public Schools (“MPS”) Special School District No. 1, its Board of Directors, and the MPS Superintendent. The...more
Connecticut lawmakers were busy throughout 2025 enacting labor and employment-related legislation that is already impacting the workplace. Understanding these critical legal updates is essential for employers seeking to...more
Key Highlights - Under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 503) (extending protection to individuals with disabilities), the basic coverage threshold increased from $15,000 to $20,000....more
Last week, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released new jurisdictional thresholds for Section 503 of the Rehabilitations Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). The...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced inflation-based increases to the jurisdictional thresholds under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era...more
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) took center stage just over ten months ago when President Donald Trump signed a series of DEI-related executive orders, including Executive Order 14173, which terminated most federal...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) just announced updated jurisdictional thresholds for two key federal affirmative action laws: the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and...more
On Nov. 17, 2025, Revier Technologies, Inc. and Young America’s Foundation (YAF) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana seeking to invalidate the Small Business Administration (SBA)...more
As of October 1, 2025, the jurisdictional thresholds for two key regulations impacting federal contractors—the Rehabilitation Act (Section 503) and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA)—have...more
BLOG OVERVIEW: OFCCP has released new minimum contract thresholds for federal contractors and subcontractors. These thresholds help determine whether employers must adhere to requirements stemming from Section 503 of the...more
In a bulletin issued on November 25, 2025, the OFCCP announced that, as of October 1, 2025, the federal contractor and subcontractor jurisdictional thresholds for individuals with disabilities pursuant to Section 503 of the...more
Employers doing business with the federal government may be required to maintain affirmative action programs for individuals with disabilities and veterans depending on the dollar value of their contracts....more
On November 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education proposed adding the “Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS)” to IPEDS, narrowing applicability to selective four-year institutions, introducing targeted...more
Much of the focus over the last 10 months has been on the Trump Administration’s decision to end the requirement to prepare Affirmative Action Plans under Executive Order 11246. This change has created some confusion, with...more
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued an Interim Final Rule that eliminated the decades long presumption that women- and minority-owned businesses automatically qualify under a “presumed disadvantaged” status for...more