The Biden National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was born in controversy, with the unprecedented termination of General Counsel (GC) Peter Robb and has shown no interest in changing its ways. Acting GC Peter Ohr began his...
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed its long-awaited independent contractor regulation on October 11, 2022. This is the culmination of a 19-month effort by the Biden administration to replace the regulation...
The recent collapse of governance in Britain, the war-mongering autocracy in Russia, the solidification of one-man rule in China, the baffling election in Italy, along with various upheavals across the globe, all make us...
According to a summary prepared by David Cohen of DCI Consulting, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) in fiscal year (FY) 2023 recovered only $11,617,060 for 19 systemic conciliation agreements and...
On September 12, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its proposed revision to the Office of Labor-Management Standards’ Form LM-10, which would require employers required to file the form to report their status...
On September 22, the EEOC is holding its third and final commission listening session to obtain public input on future enforcement priorities. The commission is asking public input on its Strategic Enforcement Plan for...
In December of 2021, Judge R. Stan Baker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide preliminary injunction of the federal contractor vaccine mandate in the case of Georgia v...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published its long-awaited proposed regulation defining the joint-employer relationship. The new rule, which reinstates an “indirect control” standard, hopes to bring an end to a...
The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for all Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports filed by federal...
As the midterm elections approach and the end of a Democratic Senate looms, President Joe Biden’s key labor/employment nominees remain unconfirmed. With the number of legislative days decreasing and with many Senators...
American labor laws seem to be a way of transforming the innate antagonisms between labor and management into a more manageable form of duel: A union elected by the workers engages in collective bargaining with the...
Kalpana Kotagal, the nominee to be the third Democratic commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is being opposed by conservatives, who seem to be targeting nominees they consider to be “left...
The sprawling and multifaceted U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is on track to receive a significant budget increase of nearly $14 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2023, which the department will use to meet the expanding...
Dozens of corporations, the U.S. military, and the Biden administration, among other organizations, have filed amicus (friend of the court) briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the use of affirmative action in...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report addressing the collection of employers’ compensation data by the federal government using the EEO-1 Report was finally released on July 28, 2022. The report recommends that...