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.

The EEOC’s first lawsuit brought under the PWFA serves as a reminder that federal law now requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to employees for known limitations related to pregnancy.

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. The interagency entity that coordinates federal government procurement policy wants to reinstate a reporting requirement applicable to covered federal contractors obligating them to notify the government of executive compen

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued new guidance stating that broadly worded confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements can unlawfully deter employees from exercising their rights under federal whistleblower laws.

In a less publicized but still important regulatory ruling in addition to the Supreme Court’s recent decision throwing out the decades old Chevron doctrine, the High Court also ruled that an entity may be able to challenge a federal regulation years

In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court has held that the lower federal courts should no longer give deference to agency interpretations of vague or unclear statutory language.

Federal district courts have reached different conclusions in assessing challenges to controversial parts of the EEOC’s regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Our memo explains.

In what could be a precedent for other federal whistleblower protection laws, Congress has added substantial monetary penalties as a remedy for whistleblower retaliation related to aviation safety violations.

The High Court’s pro-arbitration ruling resolves a split among the federal appeals courts as to whether a trial court must put a lawsuit on hold rather than dismiss it when arbitration has been ordered.

A bill approved by Congress to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration for another five years contains a provision regarding lactation protection for airline crew members.

As we predicted, a lawsuit has been filed by the Republican Attorneys General of 18 separate states challenging the EEOC’s new anti-harassment guidance and its SOGI discrimination provisions.

Two recent case developments involving lawsuits brought under Washington state’s salary disclosure law offer some insights as to the types of challenges that are being brought under similar state laws and how the courts might deal with them.

The ruling by the High Court further clarifies the scope of the transportation worker exemption contained in the Federal Arbitration Act.

CWC WEB WORKSHOP on April 30, 2024. The EEOC, over the objection of two of its Commissioners, has issued final regulations interpreting the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, giving the law an expansive reading that is almost certain to be challenged in

President Biden has submitted his fiscal year 2025 budget to Congress, and as with the President’s earlier budget requests, it calls for increased funding for the EEOC and other workplace regulators as well as for major policy changes such as a paid

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that it intends to roll out a pilot program later this year that would award bounties to corporate whistleblowers who are not otherwise eligible for cash rewards under current federal laws.

A federal trial court has ruled that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act cannot be enforced against the state of Texas because the House of Representatives did not have a necessary Constitutional quorum when the PWFA was enacted.

Data released recently by the four federal agencies with primary jurisdiction over federal whistleblower laws show an increase in both allegations of fraudulent activity as well as an increase in complaints alleging retaliation for blowing the whistl

The U.S. Supreme Court has made it easier for a whistleblower claiming retaliation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prevail by ruling that the person does not need to show retaliatory intent before the burden shifts back to the employer to prove that

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. The EEOC has amended its procedural regulations to account for enactment of the PWFA, which went into effect last June. The agency’s proposed PWFA substantive regulations are still awaiting approval by the White House Offic

Enforcement of a 2019 California law (AB 51) that bans mandatory employment arbitration agreements has been permanently enjoined pursuant to a federal court order entered on January 2, 2024.

A federal court in California has ordered OFCCP to disclose federal contractors’ EEO-1 “Type 2” consolidated data in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, including Type 2 data submitted by contractors that objected to FOIA disclosure on

The Department of Labor has issued a final rule reinstating a policy implemented during the Obama Administration and rescinded by the Trump Administration that requires a successor contractor covered by the federal Service Contract Act to offer emplo

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. CWC is pleased to announce a new online training resource designed to help our members understand the requirements of the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

The Supreme Court’s landmark race-based college admissions ruling in Harvard/UNC implicated “Title VI” of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So, what is Title VI, who does it cover, and what is its relationship to the more familiar Title VII? CWC’s primer ex