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February 07, 2024
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Category: Veterans

Labor Department Now Accepting Applications for 2024 “HIRE Vets Medallion Awards”

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) is accepting applications for its 2024 HIRE Vets Medallion Award, an honor given annually around Veterans Day to employers that have shown commitment to hiring and retaining military veterans. Several CWC members have received the award since the program began in 2019. Employers who wish to be considered for...
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February 06, 2024
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

EEOC Launches Outreach Initiative Aimed at “Vulnerable Workers and Underserved Communities”

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has launched an initiative entitled “Enhancing OutREACH to Vulnerable Workers and Underserved Communities,” the agency announced January 29, 2024. The agency’s newest commissioner, Kalpana Kotagal, will lead the initiative. The initiative will include in-person and virtual listening sessions with stakeholders throughout the country to identify barriers to reporting discrimination, development of recommendations on effective...
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February 06, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Includes Revised Guidance, Data Specifications

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has opened California’s mandated Pay Data Reporting cycle for calendar year 2023. New requirements are likely to increase the burden on covered employers. They still must report the total number of workers by race, ethnicity, sex, pay band, and federal EEO-1 job category, but within that total, employers now also must identify three additional data...
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February 01, 2024
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Category: Compensation

Biden Administration Proposes Pay Range Disclosure Rule for Federal Contractors

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has proposed a new pay transparency rule that would require federal contractors to disclose pay ranges for all open jobs on or in connection with covered federal contracts. Two years after President Biden issued an Executive Order calling for pay transparency in federal contracting, the Biden Administration published its proposal in the Federal Register on January...
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January 31, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC Comments to DOL Support Extension of VETS-4212 Report, Without Change

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) supports the three-year extension of the Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report (VETS-4212) proposed by the U.S. Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS). Covered federal contractors must file the VETS-4212 report annually with DOL-VETS. It provides a snapshot of a contractor’s workforce broken down by protected veteran status, location, and job category. Contractors...
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January 31, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Do As We Say?: CFPB Settles Race Discrimination Class Action for $6 Million

After protracted litigation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has agreed to settle an employment discrimination class lawsuit for $6 million, including $1.5 million in attorneys’ fees. The lawsuit began ten years ago, when minority employees accused the CFPB of systemic discrimination,  including persistent pay discrimination compounded by a discriminatory performance review system. In light of this lawsuit, it is ironic...
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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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January 24, 2024
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Category: Immigration

USCIS Announces Changes to H-1B Visa Petition Process To Improve Efficiency

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced changes to the H-1B visa process that will take effect in February for the FY 2025 electronic registration season. USCIS said the changes will increase efficiency and ease collaboration for organizations and their legal representatives. The changes include the introduction of an online filing system for...
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January 23, 2024
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Category: DOL

Labor Department Proposes Major Revisions to “Registered Apprenticeship Program”

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed significant revisions to its Depression-era registered apprenticeship program in a proposed rule published January 17, 2024, in the Federal Register. The proposal would add numerous provisions intended to bolster workforce protections for apprentices and enhance workforce diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). Critics claim that the proposal would add bureaucracy and discourage participation by employers...
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