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February 06, 2025
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Category: Compensation

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2024 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its Filing Guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The updated guide covers the rules for filing the report for 2024, which is due May 14, 2025. This guide provides tips on the steps that a covered company should follow when pulling the data for...
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February 06, 2025
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: January/February 2025 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents an update of state and local workplace compliance requirements that occurred since December. Three states had developments about paid leave: Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Acttakes effect February 21. It requires employers with 10 or more employees to allow their employees to accrue at least 1 hour of paid...
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February 05, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

CWC Holds Member Roundtable To Discuss Rescission of E.O. 11246

CWC held a members-only roundtable January 29 to discuss Executive Order 14173, which rescinded long-standing Executive Order 11246. President Trump issued E.O. 14173, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” on January 21. It rescinds E.O. 11246 and requires federal contractors to certify that they are not operating any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion that violate federal anti-discrimination laws. During...
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February 04, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Michael Schloss Appointed as OFCCP’s Deputy Director of Policy and Acting Director

The Trump Administration has appointed Michael Schloss as the Deputy Director of Policy and Acting Director at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Mr. Schloss is an ERISA attorney who previously served as a career official at the Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA). He retired in January 2023 as EBSA’s Director of Enforcement. He rejoined EBSA...
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February 03, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Trump Administration Sets Its Sights on Immigration Policy Reform

The Trump Administration is cracking down on illegal immigration and is eager to enforce immigration policies and deport unauthorized individuals. President Trump issued numerous immigration-related executive orders during his first week in office. Most relate to securing the United States’ southern border and are not directed at employers or employees. However, companies are reporting raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at...
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February 03, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump’s Executive Order Recognizing Two, And Only Two, Sexes

On his first day in office, President Trump signed Executive Order (E.O.) 14168 to establish the federal government’s position that there are two sexes, male and female, that are not changeable. The E.O. defines “female” as “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” and defines “male” as “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex...
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January 30, 2025
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Category: Labor Relations

President Trump Fires NLRB Member Wilcox, General Counsel Abruzzo

President Trump has fired two Senate-confirmed Democrats from the National Labor Relations Board: Member and former Chair Gwynne Wilcox; and the Board’s General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo. Wilcox’s termination is controversial because the National Labor Relations Act states that the President may remove Board Members only for neglect of duty or malfeasance. Wilcox’s term was not scheduled to end until August 2028. She...
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January 30, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

President Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners Burrows and Samuels; General Counsel Gilbride

President Trump has fired three Senate-confirmed Democrats from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Commissioner and former Chair Charlotte Burrows; Commissioner and former Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels; and General Counsel Karla Gilbride. While Title VII does not include express removal protections like the laws establishing some independent agencies, the White House historically has treated the EEOC with a degree of independence....
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January 29, 2025
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Category: Immigration

Fifth Circuit Rules DACA Unlawful

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, but the program will continue to protect current DACA beneficiaries, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled January 17. Under Texas v. United States, new DACA applications will not be processed, but the court stayed its ruling for current DACA beneficiaries so they can keep their DACA status...
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January 27, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC “Commissioner Charges” Remained Active in FY 2024

Commissioners at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been making above-average use of Commissioner charges to prompt discrimination investigations, according to data released by the EEOC. EEOC Commissioners initiated 33 charges alleging discrimination under Title VII, the ADA, GINA, and PWFA in fiscal year 2024. Commissioner charges are discrimination charges initiated by an EEOC Commissioner. Proposals for Commissioner charges come from various...
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