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UPDATE: Employers Must File EEO-1 Reports for 2017 and 2018
The EEOC announced last week that employers must file their EEO-1 Component 2 data for calendar years 2017 and 2018 by September 30. The wage data must be broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity. The EEO-1 survey can be found … Continue reading
Posted in EEOC, Pay
| Tagged Chutkan, EEO-1, EEOC Guidance, Equal Pay, Obama, Pay Data, Reporting, Reporting Requirements
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UPDATE: Court Confirms that Employers Are to Provide Pay Data to EEOC by Sep. 30
On April 25, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a ruling accepting the EEOC’s proposal (which we previously reported on here) that employers who file EEO-1 reports must submit wage data broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity by Sep. … Continue reading
EEOC Sets Deadline of Sep. 30 for Employers To Submit Pay Data
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just announced that it will require employers who file EEO-1 reports (typically employers with at least 100 employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees and at least $50,000 in contracts) to … Continue reading
Posted in EEOC, Pay
| Tagged Chutkan, District of Columbia, EEO, EEO-1, EEOC Guidance, Equal Pay, Obama, Pay Data, Reporting, Reporting Requirements, Trump
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U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Salary Threshold Rule
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to update the minimum salary threshold under the Fair Labor Standards Act – an update that would make approximately a million more … Continue reading
Posted in DOL, FLSA, Pay
| Tagged Eastern District of Texas, Fifth Circuit, Notice, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Obama, Overtime, U.S. District Court, USDOL
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2017 Immigration Recap for Employers
2017 has proven to be a busy year for immigration. Below is a recap of three pertinent developments that employers should keep in mind: 30/60 day misrepresentation rule eliminated. Foreign nationals entering the U.S. on a specific non-immigrant visa are … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration
| Tagged Advance Parole, H-1B, Nonimmigrant, Obama, Trump, USCIS
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NLRB: New Law of Unilateral Changes
There is a flurry of articles on the NLRB decisions last week, reversing Obama-era rulings on the subjects of joint employers (Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors) handbook policies (The Boeing Co.) and the ‘micro-unit standard’ in representation cases (PCC Structurals Inc.) Another … Continue reading
Posted in NLRA, NLRB
| Tagged Obama, Trump, Unilateral Changes, Union Contracts, Unions
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Immigration Alert: DHS Commits to Ending DACA
On September 5, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) committed to a wind down of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA began in August 2012 when DHS started accepting requests for consideration of deferred action for … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration
| Tagged DACA, DHS, ICE, Obama, Trump, USCIS, Work Authorization
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Federal Court strikes down Overtime Rule
A Texas federal district court judge invalidated the Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s”) controversial Final Rule that would have made more than 4 million currently exempt employees eligible for overtime. On May 23, 2016, the DOL issued its Final Rule which … Continue reading