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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…
April 14, 2015 has been identified as National Equal Pay Day – the day which symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.
President Obama has made fighting pay discrimination a top priority of his Civil Rights Agenda. He has recently taken several executive actions…
One of the biggest changes to OFCCP’s recently revised scheduling letter is the requirement that employers must now submit employee-level pay data at the outset of an OFCCP audit. As the Agency puts 2,500 establishments on notice of upcoming audits, and in response to contractor questions and requests for guidance on the new scheduling letter,…
OFCCP has announced a 60-day extension for public comment on the Agency’s proposed Equal Pay Report (EPR). The new deadline for employers and others to provide feedback on the proposed EPR is now January 5, 2015.
In response to the Presidential Memorandum directing the development of a pay data collection tool, the proposed EPR…
OFCCP recently mailed out close to 2,500 Courtesy Scheduling Announcement Letters to employers providing advance notice of upcoming audits. Up against the fast-approaching end of the Agency’s fiscal year, OFCCP began initiating actual audits immediately after the CSALs were mailed.
While we can certainly expect OFCCP to continue to focus their enforcement efforts on traditional…
Rounding out the festivities in Washington, D.C., OFCCP Director Pat Shiu addressed attendees on the closing morning of the 32nd Annual ILG National conference. Keeping to the conference theme of “Learning from the Legacy, Focusing on the Future,” Director Shiu’s remarks centered around the “unfinished business of America” to address issues of pay, sexual…
As OFCCP tries to find new ways to attack the “pay gap,” the Agency is focused increasingly on novel and creative methods to uncover alleged pay discrimination. These “outside the box” investigations look beyond simply pay decisions (starting salary and pay adjustments) and instead examine employee selection processes – such as hiring decisions – and…
Earlier this week, OFCCP delivered to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed regulations implementing the President’s recent Executive Order 13665 prohibiting employers from retaliating against employees for discussing their pay. A White House Fact Sheet provides more information on how the proposed regulations fit into the President’s pay initiatives.
After OMB reviews (and…
It’s been a busy spring and early summer for the President and federal contractors with several new Executive Orders and a Presidential Memorandum on the issues of employee pay as well as sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. For those of you trying to keep up with it all, below is an up-to-date summary of…
Jackson Lewis has learned the following about the latest round of OFCCP Courtesy Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs).
On July 16, 2014 OFCCP sent out a wave of CSALs giving employers advance notice about impending OFCCP compliance reviews.
The latest CSAL wave included:
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