The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, held its 2025 Workplace Equity Policy Conference March 5 and 6. The two-day virtual conference consisted of ten substantive sessions. The overriding topic was the implication of President Trump’s Executive Order 14173, which rescinded E.O. 11246.
Discussion topics included:
- a proposal to downsize OFCCP by as much as 90 percent;
- the False Claims Act and the importance of maintaining a robust civil rights compliance monitoring program;
- contractors’ continuing need to comply with state and local affirmative action requirements;
- policies relating to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and the EEOC’s new focus on anti-American discrimination;
- auditing DEI programs for legal and reputational risk;
- workplace compliance trends at the state and local level;
- federal and state laws that require or recommend self-identification and the risks associated with collecting or not collecting self-ID data; and
- changes in talent acquisition and targeted outreach and recruitment.
Two officials from the Illinois Department of Labor — Equal Pay Act Manager Amy Sneirson and Assistant Director Jason Keller — also addressed attendees about developments related to the state’s pay reporting law.
CWC members can read more here.