May 21, 2024
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

Congress Approves Expansion of Lactation Protections for Airline Flight Crews

The FAA Reauthorization Act (H.R. 3935), which was signed into law May 16, 2024, not only reauthorizes the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for five years, but it also provides lactation protection for airline crew members. Section 421 of the bill directs the FAA to issue guidance to airlines regarding the expression of milk by crewmembers. Section 421 states that the...
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May 20, 2024
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

Group of “Red” State AGs Files Challenge to EEOC’s New Harassment Guidance

Republican Attorneys General from 18 states filed a lawsuit May 13, 2024, challenging several provisions of workplace anti-harassment guidance  issued last month by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Tennessee v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, focuses on the provisions that relate to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI)...
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May 09, 2024
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Category: CP Featured

OFCCP Publishes Helpful Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence

A new guidance document from the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs may prove helpful to federal contractors. Artificial Intelligence and Equal Employment Opportunity for Federal Contractors concerns the use of artificial intelligence and other automated systems in the employment context. The guidance responds to President Biden’s Executive Order 14110, which directs federal agencies to develop policies for...
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May 06, 2024
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Category: CP Featured

EEOC Issues Long-Anticipated New Guidance on Workplace Harassment

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) has issued new guidance for preventing harassment in private-sector workplaces. Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace supersedes previous guidance issued by the agency in the 1980s and 1990s. The three-member Democratic majority on the Commission approved the guidance April 29, 2024, over the objection of the agency’s two Republican commissioners....
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December 20, 2023
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Category: Compensation

Colorado Issues Regulatory Guidance on Its Recently Amended Pay Transparency Law

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has issued regulatory guidance on the state’s recently amended and highly prescriptive Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The amendments go into effect January 1, 2024. Since 2021, the law has required covered employers operating in Colorado to: (1) include pay ranges in job postings for all jobs that could be performed in the...
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October 11, 2023
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

EEOC Proposes Updated Anti-Harassment Guidance

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) has issued proposed anti-harassment guidance for private sector employers to reflect legal and societal changes that have occurred since the 1990s. When finalized, the updated guidance will supersede previous anti-harassment guidance issued by the EEOC in the 1980s and 1990s. The long-awaited proposal, which takes an expansive view of the definition...
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October 02, 2023
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

EEOC Official: New Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Is Not Gender-Specific

An official from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said recently that the coverage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) is not gender-specific. The EEOC declined to elaborate, so the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, wrote an analysis of whether and how the PWFA could apply to people who do not identify as women....
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