November 07, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Religious Groups Seek To Block FCC Demographic Data Collection Similar to EEO-1 Report

A group of religious broadcasters has asked a federal appeals court to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters. The court’s ruling could have implications for similar data collections like the EEO-1 Report. Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to resume collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters, a practice...
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November 04, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

NLRB Again Reports Big Increase in Unfair Labor Practice Charges in FY 2024

The number of unfair labor practice charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board increased for the fourth consecutive year in fiscal year 2024, NLRB enforcement data show. The 21,300 ULP charges filed from October 1, 2023—September 30, 2024, are the highest number filed since FY 2016. The Board made 259 final administrative determinations in FY 2024, up from 246...
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October 22, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

FY 2023 USERRA Complaint Filings Down Slightly From a Year Ago

The number of complaints filed by military service members under USERRA dipped slightly for fiscal year 2023 but are still near historic highs, data from the Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) show. The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act protects the employment and reemployment rights of employees who have been called to active military duty. The...
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August 20, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

Latest National Substance Abuse Survey Shows Drug Use Up, Alcohol Use Down

The most recent national drug and alcohol use survey, which covers 2023, shows that illicit drug use was up among U.S. workers while alcohol use was down, compared with 2022. Findings from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), conducted annually by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), show an increase in the...
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July 23, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

2023 Time Use Survey Shows Gap Closing Between At-Home Work Done by Male and Female Workers

The government’s latest American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which covers calendar year 2023, shows that full-time male employees are catching up to full-time female employees in the time they spend working from home on an average day. While the percentage difference in female FTEs compared with male FTEs working at home was reported as just over 12% in 2022, in...
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May 20, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC’s Final FY 2023 Enforcement Statistics Show 10% Increase in Charges Filed

For the second year in a row, there was a notable increase in discrimination charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity, according to the EEOC’s FY 2023 enforcement and litigation statistics. Fiscal year (FY) 2023 covers October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023. The agency received 81,055 discrimination charges in FY 2023, a 10% increase from the year before. This is...
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May 02, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC’s FAQs on the New Federal Race/Ethnicity Data Reporting Standards

The new standards for collecting and reporting federal race and ethnicity data—published in March by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)—will have a major impact on the reporting requirements imposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit...
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March 04, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Whistleblower Activity Under Federal Laws Increased in FY 2023

Federal agencies that enforce whistleblower laws report an across-the-board increase in tips and complaints alleging unlawful activity by employers, as well as an increase in complaints alleging unlawful retaliation against whistleblowing employees, fiscal year 2023 statistics show. The four government agencies are the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and...
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January 30, 2024
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Category: Compensation

Most Recent Annual BLS Gender Pay Gap Survey (2023) Shows Narrowest Margin Yet Recorded

The wage gap percentage between women and men was 16.2% at the end of 2023, according to a report from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 16.2% wage gap is the narrowest margin reported since BLS began conducting the survey in 1979, when the gap was 37.7%. Although the wage gap has been narrowing steadily, progress has been...
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January 29, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

DOL’s Release of FMLA/FLSA Enforcement Data Shows Little Change From Previous Year

Enforcement statistics related to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act do not show much change from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023, according to data published by the Labor Department’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD). The data showed that in FY 2023, WHD closed 334 cases in which it found an FMLA...
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