Saturday, January 30, 2021
Despite a global pandemic, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) kept an unrelenting pace of activity in 2020. Below are the highlights from the year, and a summary of what federal contractors and subcontractors need to know.
On his first day in office, President Joseph Biden revoked the Trump administration’s Executive Order (EO) 13950 that restricts the content of certain diversity-related workplace trainings. The EO, which President Trump signed on September 22, 2020, had set out to prohibit government contractors from using “any workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating.” On December 22, 2020, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California had issued a nationwide preliminary injunction, holding that the plaintiffs had demonstrated (among other things) a sufficient likelihood of success on their claims th
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While state legislatures focused much-needed attention on pandemic-related legislation throughout most of 2020, many continued to alter their employment laws in significant ways, or simply had previously passed laws scheduled to take effect at the start of 2021.
Some of the most prominent trends at the state and local level include creating or expanding paid leave benefits, pay equity, and anti-discrimination rules; restricting criminal background checks; and limiting the scope of non-compete laws. Employers should review these developments and consider updating their policies and procedures accordingly.
This Advisory provides a summary of major employment-related laws that take effect in 2021 in the following states and localities:[1]
Disney Argues Criminal Minds Class Action Is Trial by Ambush
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A demurrer argues the suit brought by California s Department of Fair Employment and Housing over alleged sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation purports to include a hopelessly vague class of people who worked on Criminal Minds.
Disney is asking an L.A. judge to dismiss a sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation complaint from California s Department of Fair Employment and Housing for being hopelessly vague about which
Criminal Minds workers it s suing on behalf of.
In May 2020, DFEH sued Disney, ABC and other companies and individuals connected to the procedural. The agency alleges that director of photography Greg St. Johns engaged in sexual harassment, discrimination and harassment against on-set workers, and it filed a complaint on behalf of a group of persons who worked on set for the production of the television series
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing DFEH continues to advance toward the March 31, 2021 pay data collection deadline, with the new portal opening in February.
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) continues to advance toward the March 31, 2021 pay data collection deadline. When SB 973 was passed in September, DFEH had.