Monthly Archives: April 2019

NLRB General Counsel Releases Two New “Advice Memoranda” Addressing Application of New “Boeing Standard” to Workplace Rules

The General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) has released several internal “Advice Memoranda,” two of

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Revised Opinion by Fifth Circuit in Nall v. BNSF Cures Problematic Portion of Prior ADA “Direct Threat” Ruling

Last December, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a troubling opinion

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OMB Puts Federal Agencies on Notice That Sub-Regulatory Guidance Documents Are Now Subject to Greater Scrutiny Before They Are Issued

The Trump Administration is continuing to advance its regulatory reform agenda, even as public attention is primarily focused elsewhere. In

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EEOC’s Final FY 2018 Enforcement Numbers Confirm Significant Drop in Charges Filed

Final fiscal year (FY) 2018 (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018) enforcement and litigation statistics released recently by the

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Written Comments to EEOC Support Agency’s Proposal To Allow for Digital Charge Filing While Recommending Improvements To Ensure System’s Integrity

NT Lakis lawyers submitted written comments this week to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in support of the

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Federal Court Orders EEOC To Collect EEO-1 “Component 2” Pay and Hours- Worked Data by September 30, 2019; Many Practical Compliance Issues Still To Be Determined

Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 25 ordered the Equal Employment

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OFCCP Seeking Approval To Make Major Changes to Its Compliance Evaluation Scheduling Letters

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is proposing to make extensive changes to the various letters

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Department of Labor Proposes First Significant Revision of Its FLSA “Regular Rate” Regulations in More Than Fifty Years

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would make

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NT Lakis Attorneys File Brief With Ninth Circuit, Arguing Trial Court Ruled Correctly in Denying Certification to Purported Class of More Than 8,600

NT Lakis lawyers have filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a

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Congress Quietly Moving Federal Contractor “Ban-the-Box” Legislation, as New Mexico Joins Growing Number of States With Ban-the-Box Laws

Legislation that would prohibit federal contractors from asking about or considering applicant criminal history information before the last stages of

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