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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Once Again Proposing To Revise Its Enforcement Standards

The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published a formal proposal to once again revise the rules the agency follows for resolving alleged material violations discovered during a compliance evaluation. The proposed rule would amend the Enforcement Rule issued by the Trump OFCCP in late 2020 that established a framework regarding how discrimination allegations are...
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

New OFCCP Directive Instructs COs To Review Contractors’ “Pay Equity” Analyses

In the first agency directive issued since she was appointed, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Director Jenny Yang has instructed OFCCP compliance officers (COs) to collect and analyze federal contractors’ “pay equity audits” during routine compliance evaluations, regardless of whether those studies were conducted with the assistance of in-house or outside counsel under the “attorney-client privilege” or “attorney...
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC, DOL, NLRB Once Again Promote Their Inter-Agency Anti-Retaliation Initiative

Top officials from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently held a second online discussion on their joint, inter-agency initiative to raise awareness about workplace retaliation, particularly with respect to so-called vulnerable populations (i.e., migrant workers, workers with limited-English proficiency, and low-wage workers). The February 24...

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