Monday, February 1, 2021
Here are the latest developments from the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).
New OFCCP Director. Jenny Yang, formerly of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently replaced Craig Leen as director of OFCCP. Yang was at the EEOC from 2013 to 2018, initially as an EEOC commissioner and later as vice chair and chair from 2014 to 2017.
Section 503 Focused Review Report. OFCCP recently published its “Section 503 Focused Reviews Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report.” The report provides a description of the goals of the Section 503 Focused Review Program, the guidance provided in anticipation of the reviews, the results of those reviews, and what was learned from the reviews. In the report, OFCCP noted that it did not find discrimination or reasonable accommodation violations in Section 503 Focused Reviews. The report lists the top five violations “found during Section 503
Attorney General Brnovich Announces Passage of Pregnancy Discrimination Protections Published: 01 February 2021 01 February 2021
Phoenix, Arizona - Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Representative Jeff Weninger, and Senator J.D. Mesnard announced today the passage of legislation that will prohibit pregnancy discrimination in the workplace under the Arizona Civil Rights Act (ACRA). Pregnancy discrimination is illegal in Arizona, but complaints can currently only be investigated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
If signed by the Governor, pregnancy discrimination will be enforceable under the ACRA and will authorize the Arizona Attorney General s Office (AGO) to investigate and enforce protections for this type of discrimination.
Meme Misleads on Early Actions by Biden
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A meme purports to list actions taken by President Joe Biden in his “first 48 hours” in office but most of the points are misleading or wrong. For example, the purported tax changes are proposals some of which need additional context and would require legislation before they can be implemented.
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It’s true that President Joe Biden has had a busy first two weeks in office signing a flurry of executive orders, a move that has prompted somecriticism.
But a meme shared on Instagram and Facebook distorts the facts about Biden’s early actions, claiming to show a list of his work during his “first 48 hours.” It further instructs social media users to “brace yourselves for what’s coming!!”
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Tiffany Chance has worked as a certified nursing assistant since 2005. As an African-American woman in her mid-thirties, Chance typifies the demographics of her profession: most C.N.A.s are young, over a third are Black, ninety per cent are women. She was born and raised in Ohio, and for years worked at a single nursing facility. When the pandemic started and nursing homes faced dire personnel shortages, as many employees contracted the virus or quit in fear of it, Chance started picking up scattered shifts through IntelyCare, a staffing agency that allows health-care workers to choose jobs the way that Uber drivers accept riders. She often works six shifts a week, eight or twelve hours each, across several nursing homes.
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After the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that it had extended its ACT Mediation pilot program, the EEOC reversed course yesterday and abruptly concluded pilot programs relating to the EEOC’s conciliation and mediation efforts. The ACT Mediation pilot, which launched on July 6, 2020, expanded the categories of charges eligible for mediation, generally allowed for mediation to take place throughout an investigative process (rather than only before the investigation begins as is traditionally the case outside the pilot), and expanded the use of technology to hold virtual mediations.