To many in the country, the U.S. Supreme Court’s last session was among the most impactful in decades, causing changes to how we use affirmative action in university admissions, applying developing ideas of diversity...
Federal Employment Law Insider
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to be the most activist and controversial of the federal executive agencies. Its open advocacy for unions has brought urgent criticism from employer groups and...
On December 8, 2023, European lawmakers completed principal negotiations for the European Union’s (EU) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The comprehensive legislation imposes restrictions on companies developing and...
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has had several very quiet years in fiscal year (FY) 2022 and FY2023. It was expected to issue updated regulations last year but did not. In FY2022, the agency...
In 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finally received its full slate of commissioners with three Democrats (Chair Charlotte Burrows, Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels, and Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal)...
In its 2023 Fall Regulatory Agenda, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced it will issue a final overtime rule in April 2024. Once finalized, the new overtime rule will undoubtedly force employers to reexamine their...
There’s an old courtroom adage about certain woeful arguments: They wouldn’t pass the straight-face test. But recent events make clear that we need a new, higher standard. So many baseless, unsupportable, unsubstantiated...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its anticipated joint employer regulation in late October and caused an immediate firestorm among the affected business community. Definition of joint employer expanded...
In the recent Memo 24-01, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo mapped out how the regional offices were to act to increase the number of bargaining orders issued under the Board’s...
On October 30, 2023, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order(EO) on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence (AI). The EO directs numerous federal agencies to take actions...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has been involved in a number of large investigations with significant settlements over alleged discrimination in hiring under the Immigration and Nationality Act’s (INA)...
As previously noted, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) late in fiscal year (FY) 2023 focused on federal contractors’ hiring disparities in entry-level jobs as well as compensation. In addition to...
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte Burrows was confirmed by the Senate on November 8, 2023, for a third term. She was initially appointed as an EEOC commissioner by President Barack Obama in...
In the period between 2018 and 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) saw a 69% increase in child labor violations. In fiscal year (FY) 2023, the department found nearly 6,000 children working in illegal conditions, up from...
In most years, just having to deal with George Santos (R-NY)—a man who ran for Congress as a fraud and conducted himself in Congress as a fraud—would be enough to stamp this as a bizarre Congressional session. Little did...