EEO-1 reports were due on June 4, 2024. If you have not yet filed your report, you should do so as soon as possible. The EEOC has provided a late filing deadline of July 9, 2024 to file your 2023 reports. After that date, the opportunity to file will be lost. Failure to file your
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NLRB Orders Employers Must Prove the Need for Personal Conduct Rules
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Posted in Employer Liability, Workplace Compliance
On August 2, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board reversed precedent on the issue of work rules that proscribe employee personal conduct. In Stericycle, the Board reversed and remanded an ALJ’s decision that found the employer violated Section 8(a)(1) by maintaining work rules addressing personal conduct, conflict of interest, and confidentiality of harassment complaints.…
New I-9 Form and Updated Compliance
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Most of our readers are aware of the fact that the COVID era policy which allowed employers to remotely examine documentation provided by employees for completing the form I-9 ended as of July 31, 2023. All employers will now have until August 30, 2023 to physically examine the I-9 documentation presented by the employees who…
Supreme Court Decision on Race in School Admissions Won’t Impact Contractor Affirmative Action Requirements
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Posted in Affirmative Action
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College all but banned the use of race as a factor in college admissions. The majority opinion turned on the idea that race-based admissions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Twenty years…
NEW I-9 FORM REQUIRED MAY 1, 2020 – RELAXED STANDARDS FOR EMPLOYER REVIEW OF EMPLOYEE DOCUMENTS REMAINS IN EFFECT
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I-9 Form
With all the changes to business operations due to COVID-19, it is still important that we pay attention to the non-COVID-related changes that continue to occur in the employment world. The new I-9 form has been around since January 31, 2020, and its use has been voluntary until now. As you know, however,…
EEO1 Component 2, Pay Data Analysis Becomes A Reality
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Posted in Affirmative Action, Discrimination & Harassment
By now, you are no doubt aware that the long-debated pay data component (“Component 2”) to the EEO1 Report is a requirement for this year’s reporting. The requirement first surfaced in 2016 but was the subject of repeated litigation that kept it from being implemented. Now, the EEOC has stated that it will open a…
I-9 Compliance is Now A Lot Easier
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For years, employers have struggled with properly completing the requirements of the I-9 Form. Every employee hired after November 6, 1986 must have an I-9 Form on file with the employer. The Form is proof that the employer has examined documents sufficient to establish the employee’s right to work in the United States. While the…
Revised EEO-1 Requirements Give EEOC New Window into Your Employment Practices
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Employers with more than 100 employees and federal contractors are probably more than familiar with the EEO-1 reporting requirements, but those requirements are about to change. On July 13, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published a revised version of a proposed rule to broaden the scope of data collected in the EEO-1 report. Earlier…
OFCCP Releases Final Rule on Gender Discrimination
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Posted in Affirmative Action, Discrimination & Harassment
On June 14, 2016, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) released its updated final rule regarding sex/gender discrimination. The stated purpose of the update was to revise OFCCP’s decades old guidance which was, at some level, in conflict with certain new principles currently espoused by EEOC. For example, OFCCP’s old rule required covered…
DOL Releases Proposed Rules Regarding Mandatory Paid Sick Leave for Employees of Federal Contractors
By Schaun D. Henry & Lee Tankle on
Posted in Affirmative Action
The United States Department Labor recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to enforce President Obama’s September 2015 Executive Order establishing paid sick leave for federal contractors. Now that we have been able to digest the lengthy proposed rules, we wanted to share some of our thoughts about the proposed rules with you.…