President Donald Trump began his second term with the force of a hurricane. In a matter of days, the face of the country and its government had profoundly changed. Entire federal departments were slated for elimination...
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) officially opened the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection portal on May 25, 2025. All private employers with 100 or more employees and any federal contractors with 50...
Employers remain uncertain about some of the most fundamental workplace regulations, and the outlook remains unclear as the Trump administration and its agencies strain to organize themselves in the midst of shifting...
On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, which seeks to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum...
On May 19, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new civil rights fraud initiative, which will use the False Claims Act (FCA) to investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal...
On May 22, the U.S. Supreme Court short-circuited deliberations at the D.C. Appellate Court on whether President Trump can fire members of independent boards by granting the administration’s emergency request for a stay...
Recent rulings from two different federal district courts mean the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will have to revisit and revise its antiharassment guidance and its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA)...
Thomas Jefferson is credited with having said, “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” When Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)—all but invulnerable, with...
The unprecedented termination of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member Gwynne Wilcox is headed for adjudication by the Supreme Court, but Chief Justice John Roberts may have revealed his inclination and signaled...
Although the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) remains without a quorum and, thus, cannot issue any final rulings, the reimagined Board hasn’t been idle in marking out its new operating principles. Functionally...
On March 24, 2025, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced Catherine Eschbach as the new director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). In an email to OFCCP staff, Eschbach announced that, under...
The Trump administration has taken two more steps to expand the president’s authority over federal workers. The first will clarify which workers will be reclassified as “Schedule F” workers, all of whom will be deemed...
In one of the first acts of his second term, President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14173, rescinding President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 EO 11246—which had prohibited discriminatory hiring practices across the federal...
Now that the Senate has confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor and Keith Sonderling as Deputy Secretary, the Trump administration has announced its choices to lead the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance...
In light of President Trump’s many Executive Orders (EOs), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has turned the focus of the agency to rooting out diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)...