March 2016
For several years, equal employment agencies have been pursuing requirements that employers collect and report pay data categorized by race, gender and ethnicity in order to better apply the equal pay and other discrimination laws. The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) proposed an "equal pay report" t...
Stymied by a Republican led Congress, the Obama Administration has demonstrated its willingness and ability to use the pen to enact its liberal agenda through executive and agency action. In the past few years alone, the Administration has raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 (Executive Order 13658), prohibited federal contracto...
Attorneys and clients are familiar with cases in which a plaintiff sues a group of defendants, hoping that the plaintiff can find a "deep pocket" so that at least one of the defendants will pay off the damage claim. A recent example of this on the federal employment level is the ruling of the NLRB last August in Browning-Ferris Industries, 362 NLRB ...
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