January 17, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

Employment-Related Lawsuits Filed in Federal Court Increased in 2023

Total employment-related lawsuits filed in federal courts increased by nearly 9% in fiscal year 2023 over the preceding year, according to statistics from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. A 21% increase in suits filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) led the uptick, which ended a four-year downward trend in the filing of employment-related federal lawsuits. Despite the...
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January 11, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

CWC’s Round-Up of Notable 2023 State and Local Employment Law Developments

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a year-end digest of notable state and local employment law developments on which we reported during 2023.  The digest briefly describes the issues and links to related CWC memos that discuss the issues in more detail. If a state is not listed, that means CWC did not...
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January 10, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

Latest Annual Government Survey Shows Jump in Workplace Homicides and Suicides

The government’s most recent survey of workplace fatalities shows a marked increase in both homicides and suicides in 2022 over the previous COVID-19 pandemic year. In fact, the latest available national Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), an annual survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), discloses that 2022 had the most reported homicides in U.S. workplaces...
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January 06, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Audits, Financial Recoveries Increased Notably in FY 2023

There were notable increases in the number of audits conducted by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and the monetary remedies it obtained in 2023, according to an analysis of OFCCP data performed by the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association. OFCCP completed 1,056 supply-and-service (i.e., non-construction) compliance evaluation audits in fiscal year (FY) 2023, a...
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December 19, 2023
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEO-1 Filers Should Check Historical Reports in Wake of Recent Database Display Error

A contractor that administers the annual Employer Information (EEO-1) Report for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is advising that historical EEO-1 Reports from 2015 through 2021 that were downloaded in conjunction with the current EEO-1 filing cycle might have displayed incorrect data. According to the contractor, historic reports accessed in the OFS [Online Filing System] between October 31...
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December 18, 2023
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Category: Data and Statistics

Latest Annual (2022) Drug Use Survey Shows Another Jump in Substance Abuse by Working Americans

The government’s most recent annual drug and alcohol use survey shows a continuing increase in substance abuse by full-time workers. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH or Survey), covering calendar year 2022, both the use of illicit drugs (including marijuana, which remains illegal nationwide under federal law) and alcohol abuse by full-time employees (FTEs) in...
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December 06, 2023
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Category: Data and Statistics

FY 2022 USERRA Discrimination Complaints Up 17% Over Previous Year

Enforcement statistics released recently by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) show that discrimination complaints filed with the agency under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) for fiscal year (FY) 2022 increased by 17 percent over FY 2021, reversing a decade-long downward trend. USERRA protects the employment and reemployment rights of employees...
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November 15, 2023
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Latest Annual NLRB Enforcement Numbers Show Another Sharp Increase in ULP Charges Filed

The number of unfair labor practice (ULP) charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) by workers and their union representatives has increased by 30% over the last two years, according to NLRB enforcement data. The 19,869 ULP charges filed in FY 2023 are the highest number of charges filed since FY 2016. The NLRB’s annual enforcement...
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September 27, 2023
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

SEC Advisory Group Recommends Expanded Human Capital Disclosures

An advisory committee has recommended that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expand the amount of information that covered companies must publicly disclose about their human capital. The 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law created the committee to make nonbinding recommendations to the SEC on regulatory priorities. It suggested that the SEC require covered employers to disclose information on their...
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September 18, 2023
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Revamps EEO-1 Filing Process, Filing Season for 2022 Reports Opens on October 31

The filing season for 2022 “Component 1” EEO-1 reports will run from October 31 to December 5, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced. The agency also revealed that there will be significant changes to the filing process as it updates its EEO-1 website. It has revamped the Instruction Booklet and Data File Upload Specifications, with implications for employers that...
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