DE Under 3: EEOC Quietly Denys FOIA Requests, Pay Data Study Results & OFCCP Clears Up AAP Portal “Deadline” Confusion
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Jan. 4, 2023, released a statement that there is no "safe" level of alcohol consumption that does not affect health.1 In collaboration with international partners, the WHO spearheaded...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program undertakes assessments of exposures to various chemicals in order to determine corresponding health hazards and toxicity values....more
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also called “forever chemicals,” are a group of manufactured compounds whose presence in residential soil, industrial soil, and tap water has drawn heightened attention from...more
“Component 2” pay data reporting. What a long strange trip it’s been. The recently released report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on National Statistics (NAS) – Collecting...more
On July 28, the Committee on the Guidance on PFAS Testing and Health Outcomes at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on “Guidance on PFAS Exposure, Testing, and Clinical Follow-Up.”...more
The National Academy of Sciences—a private, non-profit organization—recently issued a report regarding committee findings on the human health effects from exposure to per-fluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)....more
In this week’s DE Under 3, Candee is joined by employment law attorney Jay Wang to discuss EEOC’s decision to deny employers with pending charges from getting their full investigative files prior to arbitration, National...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced the results of a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) based on the EEOC’s pay data collection, which...more
File this under “Be careful what you wish for.” The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released its long-awaited report evaluating the EEOC’s pay data collection tool. The Equal Employment...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Cynthia L. Hackerott. In today’s edition,...more
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released on June 2 suggests that radiation standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy...more
Remember back in 2020, slogging through filing EEO-1 Component 2 pay data for 2017 and 2018? Several months after the Component 2 upload portal closed, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) asked the National...more
In Washington - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have agreed to revive negotiations over a stalled follow-up coronavirus relief bill. Speaker Pelosi has...more
On December 13, 2019, EPA announced that it has contracted the National Academies of Science (NAS) to conduct a peer review of its Application of Systematic Review in TSCA Risk Evaluations. According to EPA, this review will...more
On June 19, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) published a press release announcing the availability of a final report entitled Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology....more
On January 10-11, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NAS) Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions (ESEHD) convened a workshop entitled “The Promise...more
In a decision that had become all but inevitable, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), on December 4, 2017 rescinded its rule that would have required railroads carrying highly hazardous flammable materials, such as...more
Introduction - Let me be Captain Obvious here. When the title is that long, the topic, including its context and history, is convoluted. Let’s start at the end, work our way toward the beginning, and come full circle. On...more
On August 21, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) released their interim report titled A Proposed Framework for Identifying Potential Biodefense Vulnerabilities Posed by Synthetic...more
On July 20, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report directing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop solutions...more
On June 30, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) released the final version of its report Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology, which is the result of a collaboration by a...more
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) may overhaul how it evaluates the safety of the carriers it regulates following the release of a new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and...more
On June 30, 3017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) released its final version of its report Preparing for Future Products of Biotechnology, which it states “analyzes the future landscape of...more
A complex—and occasionally, inconsistent—patchwork of federal and state regulatory requirements apply to entities that perform human subjects research in the United States. In recognition of one such inconsistency, the...more