Executive Order

New OFCCP FAQs Clarify That Most “Unconscious” Bias Training Not Barred by E.O. 13950

Hopefully settling some of the confusion generated by the new Presidential Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors and subcontractors from conducting

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New Trump Executive Order Bars Certain Diversity-Related Contractor Training

President Trump has signed new Executive Order (E.O.) 13950 (September 22, 2020), that among other things prohibits federal contractors and

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President Trump Revokes Union-Endorsed Obama-Era Executive Order Requiring “Successor” Service Contractors To Retain Predecessor’s Employees

One of the first executive actions that former President Barack Obama took after assuming office in his first term was

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President Trump Signs Three New Executive Orders To Further Implement Administration’s Regulatory Reform Agenda, With Focus on So-Called Guidance Documents

Reducing the cost of federal regulations and reining in the use of so-called agency guidance documents are two major components

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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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President Trump Issues New Executive Order Establishing “National Council for the American Worker” To Focus on Finding Solutions to the Skills Gap

President Trump has issued a new Executive Order establishing the President’s National Council for the American Worker (Council). According to

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President Trump’s New and Refined Version of Immigration Travel Ban Adds Two Non-Muslim-Majority Countries

President Donald Trump has released yet another immigration “travel ban,” which is scheduled to go into effect on October 18,

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Latest Legal Developments Regarding President Trump’s Controversial Travel Ban Should Have Minimal Impact on Employers

On June 26, the Supreme Court issued a decision partially lifting a set of lower court injunctions preventing enforcement of

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President Trump’s New Executive Order on Apprenticeship Programs May Impact Obama Administration’s Revised Affirmative Action Regulations

President Trump recently signed a new executive order (E.O.) designed to increase the number of apprenticeship programs in the United

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Regulatory Reform Update: New Trump Executive Orders Call on Agencies To Prepare Reorganization Plans; House Approves Three More Regulatory Reform Bills

On March 13, 2017, President Trump signed new Executive Order (E.O.) 13781, titled Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch. 

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