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May 17, 2023
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Category: Compensation

Equal Pay Act Ruling by Federal Circuit Harmonizes Law on “Prima Facie” Case

In a recent ruling under the Equal Pay Act (EPA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit applied the same standard for establishing a prima facie case to suits arising from the federal sector as courts use for EPA cases arising in the private sector. While the decision in Moore v. United States, (Fed. Cir. April 28, 2023), involves...
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May 16, 2023
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Category: Agency Enforcement

NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo Continues Push To Overturn Trump-Era Precedent

Jennifer Abruzzo, a former union official and current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) General Counsel (GC), is actively working to make U.S. labor law more union-friendly. Her position as GC—which gives her unreviewable discretion to decide which alleged labor law violations to prosecute, and by extension, the legal theories on which the Board will rule—affords her the potential...
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May 16, 2023
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Category: COVID-19

New Biden Executive Order Officially Rescinds Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate

President Biden has issued Executive Order 14099 (E.O.) officially rescinding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors as of May 12, 2023. The E.O. follows an announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the COVID-19 public health emergency was ending May 11, 2023. The vaccine mandate for federal contractors was established in 2021 but never enforced...
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May 15, 2023
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Category: Policies and Practices

Gov’t Seeks Information on Employee Monitoring and Surveillance Practices With Regulation in Mind

The Biden Administration is asking the public to provide information by June 15 about employers’ use of automated systems to monitor and manage employees. The government made its request for information (RFI) in anticipation of potential future regulations aimed at ensuring that such surveillance systems do not undermine workers’ rights, opportunities, access, health, or safety. The White House is interested...
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May 11, 2023
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

EEOC Settles With Firm Accused of Job Postings That Discriminated Against Americans

In a case that serves as a reminder that Title VII’s national origin discrimination protection extends to individuals of American national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has settled charges with the operator of a job search website accused of running job postings that favored foreign nationals. The EEOC settled multiple charges of national origin discrimination with DHI...
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May 10, 2023
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Category: Wage and Hour

Fifth Circuit Revives Legal Challenge to DOL’s Revised Tip Regulations

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has revived a legal challenge to regulations issued by the Biden Administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) in 2021 related to tips and the use of the tip credit under federal wage and hour law. In overturning a federal trial court decision in Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor that denied...
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May 09, 2023
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Category: Labor Relations

NLRB Gives More Protection to Workers Who Engage in Offensive Conduct

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has ruled that federal labor law gives broad protection to workers who make offensive outbursts—including racist and sexist statements—while engaging in protected activity. In this case, the Board concluded that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it fired a union representative who made heated remarks during a safety...
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May 08, 2023
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Category: Compensation

EEOC Asks OMB to Approve Three-Year Extension of EEO-1 Component 1 Data Reporting

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is seeking approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to continue using a slightly modified version of the Component 1 EEO-1 Report for another three years. If approved by OMB as expected, the slightly revised EEO-1 will go into effect for reports filed through 2025. The Center for Workplace Compliance...
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April 26, 2023
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

CWC’s Comments to OMB Urge Changes to OFCCP’s Prescriptive Disability Self-ID Form CC-305

Our affiliated non-profit association, the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) filed written comments with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in response to a request by the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which is seeking OMB approval to continue using the prescriptive disability self-identification Form CC-305 for three more years with only minor...
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April 26, 2023
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Category: COVID-19

Sixth Circuit in Ciraci v. Smucker’s Denies Employees’ First Amendment Vax Mandate Claim

Employees who were denied a religious exemption from their government contractor employer’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate did not have a valid cause of action under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The Sixth Circuit’s ruling in Ciraci v. J. M. Smucker Co. serves as a useful reminder that Constitutional guarantees such...
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