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The final regulations for Executive Order 13706 (“Paid Sick Leave for Workers on Federal Contracts”) were published September 30, 2016. Under the Executive Order and final regulations, paid sick leave obligations will begin with new solicitations and contracts beginning January 1, 2017.
Join my colleagues Patricia Pryor and Leslie Stout-Tabackman on October 20, 2016 for…
As first reported in the New York Times today, the White House, in connection with the U.S. Department of Labor, is working on an executive order requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to their workers. While a copy of the order was not made available, the article detailed some of the elements of…
The 33rd Annual Industry Liaison Group National Conference has officially come to a close. For four days, conference attendees attended a multitude of sessions providing insight and guidance on the latest EEO and Affirmative Action trends.
Highlights of the conference began with Director Patricia Shiu’s opening remarks as well as the EEOC and OFCCP joint…
Get a jump start on the year and come learn what you need to know about all of the new and upcoming obligations for federal contractors. Join us at The OFCCP Institute’s first conference of 2015 in San Francisco on February 25th and 26th.
We will do a deep dive into the…
Logging in at 338 pages, the Department of Labor (DOL) released final rules implementing Executive Order 13658 “Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors.” The Rules are due to be published in the Federal Register on October 7, and will be effective on December 6, 2014. However, as specified in the Executive Order, the minimum…
So come join us at The OFCCP Institute Fall Symposium in Chicago on October 1st & 2nd.
We will do a deep dive into the many new obligations emerging from President Obama’s recent series of executive orders. We also will examine and explain the OFCCP’s latest enforcement trends.
As you know (if…
Hello from the 2014 ILG National Conference in beautiful Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s conference is “Celebrate 50 Years of Civil Rights” and the conference opens tomorrow morning with an address from Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez. Key officials from OFCCP and EEOC as well as leading practitioners are scheduled to present…
In the latest in a series of recent Executive Orders signed by the President, creating significant additional burdens for federal contractors, the President signed today the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order”. In addition to releasing the EO, the White House also published a fact sheet on the new obligations contained in the…
President Obama will soon issue yet another federal contractor Executive Order, this time prohibiting sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination by federal contractors. We do not have details of the proposed executive order yet, but the announcement comes on the heels of the President’s recent delcaration of June 2014 as LGBT Pride Month.…
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