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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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January 16, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

President-Elect Trump Picks Former EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling for Deputy Secretary of Labor

President-elect Trump has announced Keith Sonderling as his choice to serve as Deputy Secretary of Labor. The Deputy Labor Secretary is DOL’s second-in-command and generally manages the department’s day-to-day operations. Sonderling served as an EEOC Commissioner from September 2020 until August 2024. Before that, he served as Acting Administrator of DOL’s Wage and Hour Division. President Trump will have to...
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January 15, 2025
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Category: Compensation

Massachusetts Publishes Filing Details for February 1st EEO-1 Reporting Requirement

Massachusetts has issued FAQs explaining employers’ obligation to report workforce data under the state’s new Salary Range Transparency Act. Under the law, employers with 100 or more employees in Massachusetts must submit a copy of their most recent EEO-1 Report to the state annually by February 1 (or the next business day). This year they will be due February 3. The FAQs explain...
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January 15, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Revises Rule Governing EEO Reporting Exemptions

The EEOC issued a final rule January 10, 2025, revising its regulations governing hardship exemptions from annual EEO-1 reporting.   To be exempt from EEO reporting requirements, an employer must show undue hardship. Previously, EEOC Commissioners voted on exemption applications. Now, however, the Chief Data Officer will process applications. Under the new rule, an exemption is more likely to be granted when: The filer...
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January 15, 2025
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Category: State and Local Law

Notable State Workplace Laws That Went Into Effect on January 1, 2025

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a state-by-state digest of notable State and Local Laws Effective January 1, 2025, as well as a digest of Minimum Wage Increases Effective January 1, 2025. CWC’s digests show that many new state laws relate to various types of paid leave. Pay transparency and captive audience bans are...
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January 14, 2025
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Category: Compensation

Biden Administration Withdraws Proposed Federal Contractor Pay Transparency Rule

The Biden Administration has withdrawn its proposed federal contractor pay transparency regulations. The regulations would have prohibited federal contractors from considering job applicants’ compensation history and would have required contractors to disclose the compensation for work on federal contracts in their job advertisements. The Biden Administration has also withdrawn the government-wide procurement policy, adopted in response to Executive Order 14069, on which the...
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January 13, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Finalizes New Bounty Hunter Program

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published a final rule implementing its bounty hunter program. The rule provides that NHTSA may pay a monetary award to a whistleblower who provides original information that leads to the successful resolution of an enforcement action for violations of laws related to the manufacture or sale of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. The...
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January 09, 2025
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Category: Data and Statistics

Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 2023 Indicates Significant Decrease in Workplace Homicides

The number of workplace homicides dropped significantly in 2023 compared with 2022, while the number of suicides occurring in U.S. workplaces increased, according to the government’s most recent survey of workplace fatalities. Overall, workplace homicides and suicides accounted for 14% of total fatal occupational injuries in 2023, down from 14.4% in 2022, according to data from the national Census of...
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January 09, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC and OFCCP Modify Long-Standing MOU; DOJ Ends Its Participation

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) December 17, 2024, outlining how they will share information and process discrimination charges and complaints. Before doing so, the agencies rescinded a similar 2020 MOU that included the Department of Justice. The EEOC enforces Title VII of the 1964 Civil...
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