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February 12, 2025
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Announces FY 2026 H-1B Visa Lottery To Begin March 7

The initial registration period for the FY 2026 H-1B visa lottery will open March 7, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has announced. Employers wanting to file H-1B visa petitions on behalf of foreign worker beneficiaries for FY 2026 (October 1, 2025—September 30, 2026) must submit an electronic H-1B lottery registration between March 7 and March 24, 2025. After...
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February 11, 2025
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Category: Executive Order

Fifth Circuit Rules Biden’s Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Increase Lawful

A federal appeals court has upheld former President Biden’s Executive Order 14026 establishing a $15.00 federal contractor hourly minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. In Texas v. Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found the increase to be within the President’s authority under the Procurement Act. The Fifth Circuit concluded that raising the minimum wage to...
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February 11, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

The EEOC Begins To Implement President Trump’s “Defending Women” Executive Order

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has moved quickly to make changes in response to Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, which President Trump issued on January 20. The EEOC announced January 28 that it had: Removed the option to use “X” as a gender marker and “Mx.” as a prefix...
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February 10, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Trump Administration Faces First Legal Challenge on Pair of Diversity Executive Orders

Two of President Trump’s DEI-related executive orders are being challenged in a lawsuit from the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. NADOHE’s lawsuit, filed February 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, asserts that Executive Orders 14151 and 14713 violate the Constitution’s due process and free speech protections and asks the court to declare...
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February 06, 2025
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Category: Compensation

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2024 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its Filing Guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The updated guide covers the rules for filing the report for 2024, which is due May 14, 2025. This guide provides tips on the steps that a covered company should follow when pulling the data for...
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February 06, 2025
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: January/February 2025 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents an update of state and local workplace compliance requirements that occurred since December. Three states had developments about paid leave: Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Acttakes effect February 21. It requires employers with 10 or more employees to allow their employees to accrue at least 1 hour of paid...
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February 05, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

CWC Holds Member Roundtable To Discuss Rescission of E.O. 11246

CWC held a members-only roundtable January 29 to discuss Executive Order 14173, which rescinded long-standing Executive Order 11246. President Trump issued E.O. 14173, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” on January 21. It rescinds E.O. 11246 and requires federal contractors to certify that they are not operating any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion that violate federal anti-discrimination laws. During...
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February 04, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Michael Schloss Appointed as OFCCP’s Deputy Director of Policy and Acting Director

The Trump Administration has appointed Michael Schloss as the Deputy Director of Policy and Acting Director at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Mr. Schloss is an ERISA attorney who previously served as a career official at the Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA). He retired in January 2023 as EBSA’s Director of Enforcement. He rejoined EBSA...
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February 03, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on Immigration Policy Reform

The Trump Administration is cracking down on illegal immigration and is eager to enforce immigration policies and deport unauthorized individuals. President Trump issued numerous immigration-related executive orders during his first week in office. Most relate to securing the United States’ southern border and are not directed at employers or employees. However, companies are reporting raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at...
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February 03, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump’s Executive Order Recognizing Two, And Only Two, Sexes

On his first day in office, President Trump signed Executive Order (E.O.) 14168 to establish the federal government’s position that there are two sexes, male and female, that are not changeable. The E.O. defines “female” as “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” and defines “male” as “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex...
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