Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Will the State Attorneys General and Other State Agencies Fill the Void Left by the CFPB?
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Alan Kaplinsky’s “Fireside Chat” with Matthew J. Platkin, New Jersey Attorney General
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
DE Under 3: OMB Announced Finalized Overhaul to Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collection Standards
DE Under 3: OFCCP Resurrects Proposal for Monthly CC-257 Employment Utilization Reports for Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: FAR Council Submitted for OMB Approval Proposed Rule on “Pay Equity and Transparency in Federal Contracting”
DE Under 3: Surprises Lurk Throughout OMB's 2023 Spring Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s Controversial “Pre-Enforcement Notice & Conciliation Procedures” Final Rule Coming Soon
DE Under 3: President Biden Issued "Modernizing Regulatory Review" Executive Order
DE Under 3: OMB’s Initial Proposal to Overhaul Federal Race & Ethnicity Data Collections
DE Under 3: OMB Publishes Its Fall 2022 Regulatory Agenda
DE Under 3: Big Changes Coming to OFCCP's Supply & Service Contractor ICRs
DE Under 3: Employment Poster Requirements & the U.S. DOJ’s First-Ever Criminal Anti-Trust Prosecution
DE Under 3: Data Gathering & Data Delivery
DE Under 3: New Data Collection Burdens, NLRB’s Ruling Regarding Union Election Dismissals, and OMB’s Tech Modernization Fund
Biden’s Modernizing Regulatory Review – A New Paradigm?
DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Is it the End of the EB-5 World as We Know it? How to Prepare for Potential Changes
I-14: Update on EEO-1 and I-9 Forms, Employer Obligations After a Hurricane or Other Natural Disaster, and Attorney Jason Barsanti on Meal and Rest Breaks
The U.S. Department of Transportation is seeking public comment on opportunities to reform transportation regulations. The comment period ends next week. This effort is part of President Trump’s “Ten for One” regulatory...more
The current administration’s efforts to reform the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) are now officially underway. On April 15, 2025, in an Executive Order titled Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement (EO or...more
President Donald J. Trump, in December 2017, discussed the number of regulations eliminated in his first Administration’s “far-reaching regulatory reform,” known as the “two-for-one rule.” Eleven months earlier, Trump had...more
Seeking to “unleash prosperity through deregulation” and fulfilling a campaign promise, President Trump has signed an executive order to implement a requirement that for every new regulation, ten existing regulations must be...more
On February 10, 2020, in National Women’s Law Center v. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) collection of gender...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On February 10, 2020, Judge Chutkan granted the Office of Management and Budget’s (“OMB”) motion to close the EEO-1 Component 2 data collection tool. ...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires employers with at least 100 employees (and federal contractors with at least 50 employees) to file an EEO-1 Report with a count of employees by establishment and job...more
Employers who must file EEO-1 reports with the EEOC will now have to provide pay data by September 30, 2019. Many employers are familiar with Component 1 of the EEO-1 Form. Component 1 requires covered employers to submit...more
On April 25, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia gave an oral ruling from the bench reportedly accepting the EEOC’s proposal to make employers submit their 2018 pay data by September 30, 2019....more
Although it has been more than a month since a federal district court judge ordered the reinstatement of a controversial EEO-1 pay data reporting rule, it is still unclear when employers will need to comply....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Pursuant to ongoing litigation, the EEOC was required to submit a proposed timeline for the collection of pay and hours data in connection with the Revised EEO-1. ...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on April 3, 2019, that employers have until September 30, 2019, to submit employee pay data as part of their annual 2018 EEO-1 report....more
Despite some initial news stories to the contrary, uncertainty still remains as to whether and when employers will be required to submit Component 2 pay data to the EEOC. ...more
On April 3, 2019, the EEOC announced in a court filing that it will require employers to submit 2018 EEO-1 pay and hours data by September 30, 2019....more
The continuing legal battle over whether the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will collect pay data from employers has understandably left many employers confused about their obligations....more
As employers begin their annual EEO-1 reporting process for race, ethnicity, gender, and job category information, whether or not pay data will be part of that reporting remains up in the air....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On March 19, the Court set a schedule to allow the EEOC to submit a timeline for employers to comply with the District Court’s prior ruling which reinstated the collection of pay data in connection with the...more
On March 4, 2019 Judge Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling that immediately reinstated the EEO-1 pay data reporting requirement....more
Employers may need to begin collecting pay and hours data to report on EEO-1 forms, now that a federal district judge revived the controversial requirement put in place during the Obama administration....more
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released the Fall 2018 Unified Agenda of Regulatory Actions, which outlines the rulemaking actions currently under development in each federal agency. This memorandum...more
On August 1, 2018, two consumer groups sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, and Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Bruce Summers for failing to meet the statutory...more