DOL

Memo
24-182
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We’ve updated our primer that explains the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires contractors to pay the prevailing wage and fringe benefits to laborers and mechanics working on covered federal construction contracts.


Memo
24-181
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Solicitor of Labor has released a report summarizing its enforcement against coercive employment contracts, including those provisions that might chill workers in exercising their rights under employment laws DOL enforces.


Memo
24-177
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Data released recently by the U.S. Department of Labor show that the number of new complaints filed with the agency by military service members under the USERRA for fiscal year 2023 dipped slightly, but are still near historic highs.


Memo
24-175
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

CWC recently held its tenth annual Talent Acquisition Compliance Summit featuring substantive presentations, facilitated discussions, and small-group sessions. Our memo provides the highlights.


Memo
24-174
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

CWC’s recently concluded 2024 CD&I Conference featured in-depth discussions on topics of importance to our members’ everyday compliance efforts. Our memo provides a summary.


Memo
24-171
Thursday, October 10, 2024

OFCCP has received approval to begin collecting monthly reports from construction contractors detailing employee count and work hours by race/ethnicity, sex, and construction trade.


Memo
24-169
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

A janitorial contractor has filed a lawsuit challenging OFCCP’s administrative enforcement process, with an initial ruling expected by the end of the month.


Memo
24-167
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

The minimum wage rate on certain government contracts subject to coverage under separate Executive Orders issued by Presidents Obama and Biden will increase on January 1, 2025.


Memo
24-164
Monday, September 30, 2024

Our updated template is designed to assist CWC’s federal contractor members with meeting their OFCCP compliance obligations toward individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.


Memo
24-158
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

In a ruling that has implications for pending legal challenges to Biden Administration revisions to the FLSA’s white collar overtime exemption regulations, the appeals court has ruled the Department of Labor has authority to impose a salary level tes


Memo
24-156
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Our updated template is designed to assist CWC’s federal contractor members with meeting their OFCCP compliance obligations.


Memo
24-153
Thursday, September 12, 2024

In a little-noticed but potentially significant policy development, President Biden has issued an Executive Order that establishes a precedent for awarding future government contracts based on union-friendly policies.


Memo
24-152
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

In the first such Early Resolution Conciliation Agreement that we’ve seen during the Biden Administration, the agency has agreed to a multi-year nationwide audit moratorium of the contractor’s establishments in return for an agreement by the contract


Memo
24-148
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Item 21 on the Itemized Listing that accompanies OFCCP’s Scheduling Letter has generated confusion regarding how to respond. Our memo offers some guidance.


Memo
24-146
Thursday, August 29, 2024

The federal appeals court has thrown out the Biden Administration’s 2021 rule governing how tipped employees should be paid, finding that the rule is contrary to the statutory language of the Fair Labor Standards Act.


Memo
24-138
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Our comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget argue that it should not give permission to OFCCP to reinstate a burdensome form that OFCCP discontinued decades ago because it was marginally useful and put a strain on agency resources


Memo
24-133
Thursday, August 8, 2024

The Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has opened the annual filing system for the mandatory VETS-4212 Report. The submission deadline is September 30. Our memo provides the details.


Memo
24-132
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

CWC is pleased to provide our members with an updated template to assist in meeting their employment service delivery system (ESDS) notice obligations required under OFCCP regulations.


Memo
24-130
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

As Congress moves forward with setting funding levels for the federal government in FY 2025, it is looking increasingly likely that workforce enforcement agencies such as OFCCP and the EEOC will end up being funded at current FY 2024 levels.


Memo
24-129
Monday, August 5, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget has given OFCCP the go-ahead to begin using a new and expanded version of the Scheduling Letter used to notify federal construction contractors of a compliance audit.


Memo
24-128
Thursday, August 1, 2024

OFCCP’s new directive retains many of the components of the prior administration’s “early resolution conciliation” procedures. Whether it signals a change in OFCCP’s current enforcement philosophy remains to be seen.


Memo
24-124
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Our comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget urge that agency to require OFCCP to make revisions to its proposed construction contractor scheduling letter before OMB gives approval to OFCCP to use it.


Memo
24-120
Thursday, July 18, 2024

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. OFCCP is asking OMB for approval to reinstate a burdensome reporting requirement on federal construction contractors that the agency originally abandoned in 1995 as putting a strain on OFCCP resources.


Memo
24-114
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

OFCCP has announced 16 formal settlements of enforcement actions against federal contractors during the first three quarters of the fiscal year. Our memo provides details.


Memo
24-111
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

The new minimum weekly salary of $844 for a white-collar employee to qualify for exemption from federal overtime coverage has taken effect except for employees of the state of Texas, based on a federal court’s preliminary injunction.


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