This week the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued regulations and inviting comments. The rules are intended to improve the rate of hiring of veterans by contractors receiving government funds above a certain threshold. The law already prohibits discrimination against veterans and against people in the military reserves.
Still, it is always difficult to prove...
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Extra Staffing Leads to More Enforcement by Department of Labor
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been taking on more cases of systematic discrimination, as compared to years when the executive branch was run by the Republican party. The Department of Labor is making waves, too. That Department enforces not just wage and hour laws, but also the affirmative action executive order put into place...
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Senate Fails to Pass Federal Whistleblower Law
Although the lame duck Congress did a good amount of work before closing for the year, and the session, not everything passed. The Senate was unable to extend the protections for federal whistleblowers. On the evening of December 22, the bill was put on hold.
The major difference between the two versions of the...
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Update on the Franken Amendment
The Franken Amendment has passed the House and is expected to become law. Under the amendment to next year’s appropriations bill, contractors doing more than $1,000,000 of business with the federal government must agree not to require arbitration, rather than court, claims of discrimination, sexual assault, and other employment claims. Six months after the effective...
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