Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 28: Construction Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
Webinar: Is Your DEI Policy Setting You Up for a Lawsuit?
#WorkforceWednesday: NLRB Wants Shuttered Starbucks Stores Reopened, Big Tech Retreats from DEI Programs, and Employers Scrap College Requirements - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: The Ripple Effect of the Supreme Court’s SFFA Ruling for Diversity in the Workplace - Employment Law This Week®
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
DE Under 3: SCOTUS Finds “Race-Based” Admissions Practices At Harvard and UNC Unlawful
DE Under 3: The Harvard and UNC Case Decisions Are Coming
DE Talk | Top 5 Actions to Take After You Complete Your Affirmative Action Plan
An Update on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Consumer Financial Services Industry, with Special Guest Naomi Mercer, Senior Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, American Bankers
DE Under 3: The Coming Harvard & UNC Case Decisions and NLRB’s Memo on Electronic Surveillance and Organizing
DE Under 3: Recent Carnegie-Mellon Report Calls Accuracy of Census Data into Question
DE Under 3: OFCCP Walks Back Its Earlier “Pay Equity” Directive
DE Under 3: EEOC Quietly Denys FOIA Requests, Pay Data Study Results & OFCCP Clears Up AAP Portal “Deadline” Confusion
DE Under 3: Secretary Walsh Intervenes in Court, Religious Exemption Updates, & AAP Verification Deadline Extension Developments
DE Under 3: USDOJ’s Settlement Affecting Recruiters, OFCCP’s AAP Verification Deadline Extension & SCOTUS’ New Ruling
In this episode recapping the finale of his four-part blog series following the Harvard and UNC case decisions, employment law attorney John Fox shares the one lawful reason why an employer would undertake a preference based...more
A medical school applicant recently filed suit, alleging that several Texas medical schools improperly rejected him by basing their admissions decisions on race and gender. The complaint asserts that these schools (along with...more
Where did 2021 end? In a muddle. In the spring, the country was reaching COVID ‘herd immunity’ through vaccination. Then came summer and the Delta strain of the virus, followed by Christmas Eve, when 3,000 airline flights...more
There are a lot of myths surrounding women and workplace success. When it comes to the professional women, there's no shortage of generalizations and understanding the complexity, nuances and individual experiences of our...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) recently released a FAQ addressing how contractors should “handle counting employees and/or applicants who identify as a gender other than male or female such as...more
Federal construction contractors are barred from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or covered veteran status, and many...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
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
In this episode, Akin Gump Supreme Court and appellate practice co-head Pratik Shah discusses the big cases from the preceding U.S. Supreme Court Term and looks ahead at interesting cases in the new Term. Among the topics...more
For the first time in more than four decades, OFCCP revised its Sex Discrimination Guidelines prohibiting discrimination by government contractors on the basis of sex (the “final rule”). The final rule applies to employers...more
On January 28, 2015, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) announced proposed changes to its sex discrimination guidelines (“Guidelines”). The current Guidelines set forth the interpretations and...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced a Final Rule implementing changes made to the affirmative action requirements by Executive Order 13672, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual...more
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)—which enforces anti-discrimination and affirmative action laws affecting government contractors and subcontractors—has issued...more
Michigan’s affirmative action ban, a Constitutional amendment enacted through referendum during the 2006 election cycle, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The decision means that public entities, including...more