Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Latest Developments on DEI Executive Order and Action Items before April 21 Deadline
#WorkforceWednesday®: EEOC/DOJ Joint DEI Guidance, EEOC Letters to Law Firms, OFCCP Retroactive DEI Enforcement - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Agencies Begin Compliance Efforts Under Trump Administration - Employment Law This Week®
Preparing for — and Surviving — an OFCCP Audit
DE Talk | If It’s Not in Writing, It Never Happened: Applicant Tracking & Recordkeeping Strategies to Ensure OFCCP Compliance
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 26: Compensation Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
DE Under 3: Court Held That Workday Was an “Agent” to Employers Licensing its AI Applicant Screening Tools
DE Under 3: Retirement of “Chevron Doctrine” Exposed Vulnerability of OFCCP’s Overreaching Interpretations of Some of its Rules
DE Under 3: OFCCP Must Shut Down its Administrative Court Prosecutions as a Result of SCOTUS’ SEC Jury Trial Case Decision
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s New Revisions & Additions to its Construction Contractor Compliance Audit Tools
DE Under 3: OFCCP VEVRAA Guidance Clarifies Protected Veteran “Benchmark for hiring” is Not a Hard Number Quota
DE Under 3: OFCCP Changes Up Important Technical Details of its Audit Selection Process in First FY 2024 CSAL
DE Under 3: EEOC’s Settlement with the SSA is a Cautionary Tale for Private Sector Employers & Federal Government Contractors
DE Under 3: Contractors Have Second Opportunity to Comment on OFCCP’s Supply & Service Contractor Portal Information Collection
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 17: Federal Contractor Fundamentals with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group, Part 2
DE Under 3: New OFCCP AI Guidance Misstates Adverse Impact Law Portending Much Coming Friction with Federal Contractors
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 16: Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group, Part 1
DE Under 3: An Explanation of the Current Federal Budget Bill Confusion
DE Under 3: Biden "Hits the Brakes" on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies in FY 2025 Budget Proposal
DE Under 3: Big Budget Opponents Again Stop a Final Federal FY 2024 Budget, Congress Keeps Agency Spending to FY 2023 Levels
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GSA FAR Class Deviations - Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” issued on January 21, 2025, caused immediate confusion for federal government contractors since their...more
On the first day of President Trump’s second administration, he signed the Ending Racial and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Executive Order. This order provides direction to eliminate any and all Diversity,...more
Introduction - Shortly after his second inauguration, President Trump signed a series of executive orders addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programs in the federal government and supplanting such initiatives...more
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” This EO revokes longstanding Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment...more
On Tuesday, January 21, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The new Executive Order condemns corporate and governmental policies on...more
In the last few days since the Presidential Inauguration and initial Executive Orders, we have received emails saying everything from “President Trump has voided Title VII” to asking whether “all equal employment laws have...more
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal government had to affirmatively recruit women and minorities for employment and ensure employment...more
On January 21, 2025, President Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, which has been in place since 1965. EO 11246 prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual...more
On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued a broad executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”), which among other things, rescinds Executive Order (“EO”) 11246....more
Bloomberg Law reported late Tuesday night that President Donald Trump has revoked Executive Order 11246 as part of a broader executive order addressing diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government and...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently reauthorized its Construction Compliance Review Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing with several notable revisions (the Amended...more
On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. On the recent 34th anniversary of the ADA, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) General Counsel Karla Gilbride and U.S....more
An employee time traveling to today’s workplace from the 1980s would be astounded at where we’ve arrived. While we don’t (yet!) have flying cars as imagined by many 1980’s sci-fi movies, the world of work is undergoing its...more
On April 29, 2024, the White House released a statement entitled, “Biden-Harris Administration Announces Key AI Actions 180 Days Following President Biden’s Landmark Executive Order.” A few hours later, the U.S. Department...more
On April 4, 2024, multiple federal agencies charged with enforcing various laws signed a joint statement asserting that...more
Welcome to the artificial intelligence (AI) era, where technology transforms every aspect of our lives, including how we work. In this AI-driven world, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and potential that...more
Recently, New York City’s law related to the use of automated employment decision tools (where hiring/promotion decisions involve algorithmically-driven mechanisms) has garnered much attention. Other local/state entities...more
Government contractors witnessed significant developments ranging from infrastructure, sustainability, supply chain, and cyber security requirements to increased compliance obligations and enforcement actions in 2022. Here we...more
Our latest briefing explores the recent FTC commercial surveillance and data security forum (including discussion on widespread use of AI and algorithms in advertising), California’s inquiry into potentially discriminatory...more
In its first 100 days in office, the Biden administration has advanced its policy priorities, many of which have involved repealing the policy accomplishments of the previous presidential administration. The Biden...more
A quick move, but not a surprising one. President Biden issued more than a dozen executive orders during his first day in office. One of them revokes President Trump’s Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex...more
Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that bans federal contractors from providing employees with "training sessions based on race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating." The order is part of an...more
Labor and employment law saw a flurry of activity in 2018 as the Trump Administration’s deregulation and pro-business policies took effect across the country. State and local governments responded in a variety of ways to ...more
We’re living at a time when a unique convergence of multiple trends is ensuring that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon change life as we know it. On the technology side, vehicles are trending towards being electrified and...more