October 09, 2025
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Category: CP Featured

Employer Fined $1.35 Million For Failure To Provide CCPA Disclosures To Consumers And Applicants

The California Privacy Protection Agency has reached a $1.35 million settlement with Tractor Supply Co. over alleged violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act. This marks the largest fine ever issued by the agency. The CCPA requires businesses to inform all “consumers” — a term that includes employees and job applicants — of their privacy rights. These rights include knowing what personal...
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October 08, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Senate OKs EEOC, Labor Nominees To Advance The Administration’s Agenda

The Senate has confirmed many Trump Administration nominees to key roles in workplace regulatory agencies, giving the EEOC a quorum and positioning DOL agencies to more effectively advance the President’s agenda. Newly confirmed nominees include: Brittany Panuccio (EEOC Commissioner); Jonathan Berry (Solicitor of Labor); Wayne Palmer (Assistant Secretary of Labor, MSHA); Julie Hocker (Assistant Secretary of Labor, ODEP); David Keeling...
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September 15, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

First 2025 Regulatory Agenda Confirms Policy Shifts But Includes Few Surprises

The Administration has published the first regulatory agenda of President Trump’s second term. The semi-annual agenda includes the following items likely to affect workplace compliance programs: An anticipated interim final rule by the FAR Council to implement E.O. 14173, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity; OFCCP’s proposed rules to rescind regulations implementing E.O. 11246 and significantly revise regulations implementing...
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September 10, 2025
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Category: CP Featured

Under New E-Verify Status Change Report, Employers Must Monitor Revoked Work Authorizations

E-Verify has introduced a new Status Change Report that shifts responsibility to employers to proactively monitor revoked Employment Authorization Documents (EADs). U.S. employers are responsible for ensuring that all their employees are authorized to work in the United States. They typically accomplish this through Form I-9 — and for federal contractors, through E-Verify. Employees may present various documents to prove...
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September 04, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

EEOC Retains Authority To Investigate Even After Charging Party Sues, Second Circuit Rules

The EEOC retains its authority to investigate a charge even after it issues a right-to-sue letter and the charging party sues, the Second Circuit held August 25 in EEOC v. AAM Holding Corp. In this case, an employee received a right-to-sue letter and filed a separate suit while her employers were appealing a district court order upholding an EEOC subpoena. The...
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May 27, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

DOJ Launches Civil Rights Fraud Initiative Targeting Federal Contractors

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights fraud initiative that will use the False Claims Act (FCA) to investigate federal contractors’ civil rights violations, DOJ announced May 19. The initiative will be led jointly by DOJ’s Civil Division's Fraud Section — which enforces the False Claims Act, and DOJ’s Civil Rights Division — which enforces civil rights laws....
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May 27, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Subpoena Enforcement Suggests Focus on Anti-American Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking to enforce a subpoena against Mauser Packaging Solutions in connection with a Commissioner’s charge alleging unlawful steering and discrimination against American workers. The EEOC asserts that Mauser has not complied with its information requests seeking an electronic database of job candidates and incumbent employees at eight facilities over four years, including demographic, personnel, and contact...
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May 27, 2025
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Category: Featured

USCIS Alerts Employers of an E-Verify System Error Impacting Mismatch Cases

A technical glitch in the E-Verify system may require some employers to create a new E-Verify case for employees who received a final nonconfirmation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services alerted employers on May 19 that a system error caused some Social Security Administration (SSA) tentative nonconfirmation (mismatch) cases that were referred between April 9 and May 5 to incorrectly receive a final...
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December 19, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Audits, Financial Remedies Decreased in FY 2024

OFCCP had a slow year in FY 2024, awarding less money in discrimination cases to fewer class members and completing fewer audits than at any time in recent memory, according to enforcement data released by the agency. The data, which cover the period from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024, show that OFCCP completed 14% fewer supply-and-service (non-construction) audits...
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December 03, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

OFCCP Construction Contractor Utilization Report Due April 2025 (and Every Month Thereafter)

Federal construction contractors and subcontractors must begin filing their monthly CC-257 forms April 15, 2025, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced. Employers that have a federal construction contract or subcontract, or a contract in which federal funds pay for construction work worth more than $10,000, must submit a Monthly Employment Utilization Report (CC-257) to OFCCP on...
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