This week, The U.S. Department of Labor released a finalized rule that eases anti-discrimination restrictions for religious employers that contract with the federal government.
Under the new rule, religious federal contractors and sub-contractors...
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December 10, 2020
December 03, 2020
On December 3, 2020, OFCCP announced the release of a new technical assistance guide for small contractors. The new guide provides compliance assistance on equal employment opportunity obligations for small federal supply, construction contractors...
December 01, 2020
On November 23, 2020, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) released new FAQs to clarify requirements of new California pay data reporting set to go into effect next year. As commented on in our October 1, 2020 and November...
November 30, 2020
On Friday, November 20, the Department of Defense Pricing and Contracting Director issued a notice on Class Deviation 2021-O0001 – Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. This notice puts into place Section 4 of EO 13950, which requires contractors...
November 17, 2020
Join DCI's Joanna Colosimo, Director of Compliance & Workforce Analytics and Principal Consultant, and Tyler Wurtz, HR Analyst, as they sit down to discuss the new California Fair Pay Act.
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November 05, 2020
Today, November 5, 2020, OFCCP published the final rule titled “Nondiscrimination Obligations of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors: Procedures to Resolve Potential Employment Decisions”. In additional, the rule clarified definitions to specify...
November 04, 2020
On Tuesday, November 3rd, OFCCP released a new Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) for supply and service federal contractors.
According to OFCCP, Federal supply and service contractors can use this technical assistance guide as a self-assessment tool...
On Thursday, October 29, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc (LDF) filed a constitutional challenge to Executive Order 13950, labeling it “an extraordinary and unprecedented” federal act that violates first amendment rights and “strikes...
October 21, 2020
This morning OFCCP released RIN 1250-ZA01 “Request for Information; Race and Sex Stereotyping and Scapegoating” (RFI) as was required by the new Executive Order 13950 and hosted a brief stakeholder call; both are described below. Additionally, a new
October 16, 2020
On Thursday, October 15, The Institute for Workplace Equality released a statement reiterating its support surrounding affirmative action and diversity & inclusion. In the statement, The Institute says:
"The Institute for Workplace Equality (“The...
October 07, 2020
OFCCP has released anew FAQ pageonExecutive Order (EO) 13950, "Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping". The FAQ includes a section on whether EO 13950 prohibits unconscious bias or implicit bias training:
"Does Executive Order 13950 prohibit...
October 01, 2020
Included in the list of legislation signed yesterday by Governor Newsom of California was Senate Bill 973 requiring California employers with 100 or more employees to submit a pay data report annually beginning March 31, 2021. This is modeled after...
