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November 14, 2025
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Category: State and Local Compliance

CWC Interstate October-November 2025 Resource Published For CWC Members

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has issued its latest Interstate, which details state and local workplace compliance developments from October and November. The CWC October/November 2025 Interstate addresses many topics: Fair employment Artificial intelligence (California) Ban the box (Philadelphia) Bias training (California) Equal pay (California) Notice of rights (California) Pay data reporting (California, New York City)...
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November 13, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and DEI

Federal Court Refuses To Limit Injunction Against EO 14173, But Appeal Remains Pending

A federal district court recently refused to narrow its preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing the certification portion of President Trump’s E.O. 14173. The executive order requires every government contractor or grant recipient to certify that it does not operate any DEI programs that violate anti-discrimination laws. In Chicago Women In Trades (CWIT) v. Trump, the government argued that a...
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November 12, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Temporary Spending Deal Reopens Workforce Agencies Through January 30

Congress has reached a deal to keep the government running at the same funding levels as last year through January 30, 2026. The bill (H.R. 5371) allows the Labor Department, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other workforce agencies to resume normal operations after the historic shutdown. The agreement also prevents most government layoffs during this period and reverses those that...
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November 10, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

President Trump Elevates Lucas To EEOC Chair

President Trump has designated Andrea Lucas as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Lucas had been serving as Acting Chair since the start of President Trump’s second term. In conjunction with the new Republican majority on the EEOC, this move positions the agency to implement major policy changes and to take a more active enforcement stance once the federal government reopens. Members of...
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November 07, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC’s End-Of-Year Litigation Focuses On Reasonable Accommodation

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has released a resource highlighting the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s enforcement and litigation activity at the close of federal fiscal year 2025. CWC’s review of EEOC’s data about recent lawsuits and settlements reveals a focus on employers’ failure to provide reasonable accommodations related to disability, religious beliefs, and pregnancy. Most cases...
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November 05, 2025
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Category: Labor Relations

Courts Split On NLRB’s Power To Impose Expanded Labor Violation Remedies On Employers

Federal appeals courts are increasingly divided as to whether the NLRB can make employers pay for indirect, but foreseeable, costs (“expanded remedies”) resulting from labor law violations. The issue stems from Thryv, a 2022 NLRB decision that expanded the Board’s remedies beyond traditional job reinstatement, back pay, and other direct costs. Thryv allows the NLRB to compel employers to pay...
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November 05, 2025
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Category: Immigration

DHS Eliminates Automatic Extension Of Work Authorization

USCIS issued an interim final rule October 29 that ends the automatic extension of Employment Authorization Documents for renewal applications, effective for renewals filed on or after October 30. Employees will not be able to work after their EAD expires unless USCIS approves the renewal and issues a new card. Previously, employees in specified categories could continue working for up to 540...
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October 30, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Panuccio Sworn In As EEOC Commissioner, Restoring Agency Quorum That Could Reshape Policy Direction

Brittany Panuccio was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission October 27. This restores the agency’s quorum and gives it a Republican majority for the first time since 2022. Panuccio will serve through 2029, joining Acting Chair Andrea Lucas (Republican) and Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal (Democrat) on the Commission. With two vacancies remaining, the Commission now holds...
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October 30, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and DEI

CWC Recommends OFCCP Retain Form CC-305 On A Voluntary Basis

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has filed comments with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs urging it to consider alternatives to its proposed elimination of Form CC-305. Federal contractors use the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form to solicit the disability status of their job applicants and employees. OFCCP recently proposed eliminating the requirement for...
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October 29, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California Updates Pay Data Reporting Requirements

California recently amended its pay data reporting obligations, which require covered employers to submit employee and labor contractor pay data reports annually to the Civil Rights Department (CRD). Under the amendment, starting in 2026: (1) employers must store demographic data separately from personnel records, and (2) penalties for failing to file pay data reports will become mandatory if CRD requests them. The...
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