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January 11, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

CWC’s Round-Up of Notable 2023 State and Local Employment Law Developments

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a year-end digest of notable state and local employment law developments on which we reported during 2023.  The digest briefly describes the issues and links to related CWC memos that discuss the issues in more detail. If a state is not listed, that means CWC did not...
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January 10, 2024
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Category: ADA

Tenth Circuit Rejects Open-Ended Leave as ADA Reasonable Accommodation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has ruled that a request for open-ended leave by a casino worker whose absences violated the casino’s no-fault attendance policy was not a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In Davis v. PHK Staffing, the Tenth Circuit upheld a federal trial court’s grant of summary judgment for the...
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January 10, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

Latest Annual Government Survey Shows Jump in Workplace Homicides and Suicides

The government’s most recent survey of workplace fatalities shows a marked increase in both homicides and suicides in 2022 over the previous COVID-19 pandemic year. In fact, the latest available national Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), an annual survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), discloses that 2022 had the most reported homicides in U.S. workplaces...
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January 08, 2024
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Category: Executive Order

FAR Council Issues Final Rule Implementing 2022 Biden PLA Executive Order

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has issued a final rule directing federal agency contracting officers to insert a project labor agreement (PLA) requirement into most solicitations or prime contracts that will cost the government at least $35 million. The rule implements a 2022 Executive Order (E.O. 14063) from President Biden that essentially mandates the use of union labor on...
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January 06, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Audits, Financial Recoveries Increased Notably in FY 2023

There were notable increases in the number of audits conducted by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the monetary remedies it obtained in 2023, according to an analysis of OFCCP data performed by the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association. OFCCP completed 1,056 supply-and-service (i.e., non-construction) compliance evaluation audits in fiscal year (FY) 2023, a...
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January 03, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

Notable New State Workplace Laws Going Into Effect on January 1, 2024

Many state workplace laws discussed in our Interstate memos are taking effect at the beginning of the year. Therefore, we have compiled a digest of the most notable new state laws, as well as two local laws from Chicago and Seattle. Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, can read more here.
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January 03, 2024
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Category: DOL

DOL Finalizes Rule Reinstating Right of First Refusal Policy on SCA Contracts

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has published a final rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors on covered service contracts to offer employees employed under a predecessor contract a right of first refusal of employment on a successor contract. The rule will take effect February 12, 2024. It restores a policy implemented by the Obama Administration and reversed by the Trump Administration....
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January 03, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC’s Updated College and University Graduate Diversity Data Resources, 2021-2022

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a series of tables and online tools to help companies develop or refine their college recruitment strategy. CWC devised the tables based on data that it obtained from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The tables show demographic data by academic award level for the 38 degree...
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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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December 19, 2023
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEO-1 Filers Should Check Historical Reports in Wake of Recent Database Display Error

A contractor that administers the annual Employer Information (EEO-1) Report for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is advising that historical EEO-1 Reports from 2015 through 2021 that were downloaded in conjunction with the current EEO-1 filing cycle might have displayed incorrect data. According to the contractor, historic reports accessed in the OFS [Online Filing System] between October 31...
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