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Compensation – it’s on everyone’s mind and it’s what everyone was talking about at the 33rd Annual ILG National Conference in New York City. Conference attendees, government officials and practitioners alike were all talking about pay and the tools available to employers and agencies to identify and investigate compensation issues.
Our Jackson Lewis colleague Scott…
Today, OFCCP released a new outreach and education poster. The poster, which the Agency explained was based on feedback received during “stakeholder” listening sessions, is not a mandatory posting but provided by the agency to “increase public awareness of OFCCP and its mission.” The poster highlights obligations of companies doing business with the federal…
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…
Today is the official start to the 2015 Industry Liaison Group National Conference where conference attendees will focus on “lessons from our past, strategies for our future” in the world of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 11246 OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu acknowledged in…
This week OFCCP sent its final regulations implementing Executive Order 13665 (“Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information”), or commonly referred to as the Pay Transparency Executive Order to the Office of Management and Budget for approval.
OFCCP published the proposed rules on September 17, 2014 and the public comment period closed December 16, 2014.
Final…
The Obama Administration has made it clear that closing the persistent gender “wage gap” is one of its top EEO priorities. As such, OFCCP has ramped up its enforcement of equal pay laws, including rewriting its compensation investigation guidelines with Agency Directive 307, revamping its Division of Statistical Analyses, and reinventing the pay…
With the official start of summer roughly a week away, it’s not too early to start planning for the upcoming ILG National Conference. This year, the 33rd Annual Conference will be held in New York City from July 28-31, 2015 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.
With the theme “Onward and Upward: Building the…
After continuing uncertainty about how employers should track Recently Separated Veterans, we have learned OFCCP and VETS agreed this week that employers’ post-offer self-identification forms need only solicit whether the new employee is or is not a Protected Veteran.
The uncertainty around collecting more specific information about Recently Separated Veterans arose when OFCCP issued an…
While we all hope that our OFCCP compliance reviews will end with a Notice of Closure with no violations, many employers are faced with a Notice of Violation citing technical or discrimination-based violations. In these instances, OFCCP will demand the contractor enter into a Conciliation Agreement to remedy the violations. But what happens when negotiations…
With the release of the new veterans and individuals with disabilities regulations, as well as roll-out of the new scheduling letter and LGBT regulations, OFCCP accomplished a lot over the last year and it’s not done yet. The latter-half of 2015 and into 2016 looks to bring more regulatory changes. The following items remain…
