August 06, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Senate Confirms Andrea Lucas to Second Term on EEOC

On July 21, the U.S. Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas to a second term on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, extending her tenure through 2030. The Senate approved the nomination by a partisan vote of 52 to 45. EEOC’s only confirmed Commissioners are Lucas, a Republican serving as the EEOC’s Acting Chair, and Democrat Kalpana Kotagal. With three seats vacant, the...
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July 31, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

2025 VETS-4212 Filing Season To Start August 1, Deadline September 30

The 2025 filing season for the annual VETS-4212 report opens August 1, the Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has announced. The submission deadline is September 30. Any contractor that held one or more contracts or subcontracts with the federal government in 2024 valued at $150,000 or more must submit a VETS-4212 report. Completing the VETS-4212 report...
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July 30, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Revived PAID Program Offers Relief for Employers Self-Reporting Potential FLSA and FMLA Violations

DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is bringing back an updated version of the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program. The PAID program allows an employer to report its inadvertent wage violations and pay them back, with DOL approval, without litigation or penalties. PAID aims to encourage employers to audit their own pay practices and proactively resolve potential claims with faster...
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July 28, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Edlow Takes Helm at USCIS, Signals Tough Enforcement Stance

Now that President Trump’s nominee, Joseph Edlow, has been confirmed as the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS is likely to increase its activity. Edlow pledged in a July 18 agency announcement to “meet ever-evolving threats and ensure that we serve as the frontline to safeguard our homeland.” The new director served at USCIS as deputy director for...
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July 10, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

DOL Proposes Rescission of Apprenticeship Affirmative Action Obligations

The Department of Labor has proposed a rule to rescind affirmative action and equal employment requirements for registered apprenticeship sponsors. If adopted, the rule would eliminate affirmative action components that are currently required, so sponsors would no longer have to submit written affirmative action programs or written selection standards. Instead, sponsors would agree to comply with applicable federal and state nondiscrimination laws....
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June 25, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Seeks OMB Permission To Rescind E.O. 11246 Regulations

The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a proposed rule that would rescind the OFCCP regulations implementing Executive Order 11246. Issued in 1965, E.O. 11246, as amended, prohibited federal contractors from discriminating in employment on the basis of race and sex, among other characteristics, and required contractors to take affirmative action to prevent such discrimination. President Trump revoked E.O....
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June 12, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Transportation Department Will Enforce English Language Standards for Commercial Truck Drivers

The Trump Administration has announced that it will resume enforcing English language proficiency rules for commercial truckers. Executive Order 14286, issued April 28, gave the Transportation Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 60 days to issue new guidance. The new guidance, announced May 20, calls for commercial motor vehicle drivers who fail to meet FMCSA’s longstanding English-language proficiency requirements to be...
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June 11, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Halts Funding for State and Local Investigations of Transgender Bias and Disparate Impact

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will no longer reimburse state and local agencies for investigating gender identity, transgender, or disparate impact claims. However, states may continue to fund such investigations on their own, and plaintiffs may still seek redress in federal court. A May 20 memorandum from the EEOC’s Office of Field Programs announced the policy shift, which applies retroactively to January 20,...
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June 10, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Trump Seeks Significant Cuts to FY26 Budget of Workplace Regulators

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 would eliminate the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and substantially cut funding for most agencies that regulate the workforce. The President submitted his budget request to Congress May 30. DOL’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) would assume OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA,...
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June 02, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump Proposes Eliminating OFCCP

President Trump’s FY 2026 budget request proposes abolishing the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Under this proposal, OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) would shift to the Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS), and OFCCP’s enforcement of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act would shift to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The proposed...
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