-
Dec 2, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Jaimy Alarcon |James Baller |Peter Loh |Ryan Glasgow
Skip to main content December 02, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 337 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
-
Dec 2, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Jaimy Alarcon |James Baller |Peter Loh |Ryan Glasgow
Chairwoman Rosenworcel announced the tentative agenda for the FCC’s December Open Meeting scheduled for December 11th, which includes consideration of a Third Report and Order expanding the 6GHz band for very low power devices on a contiguous 1200 MHz of spectrum.
-
Dec 2, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ryan Glasgow
As we previously reported, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published a final rule in April 2024 (the “2024 Rule”), raising the salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, and computer employees and the total annual compensation level for the highly compensated employee exemption. The 2024 Rule also provides for periodic, automatic increases going forward. The 2024 Rule went into effect in July 2024.
-
Nov 1, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ryan Glasgow
As previously discussed in a prior blog, ABM Industry Groups (“ABM”) previously filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of OFCCP’s civil enforcement processes. On October 30, 2024, Judge Sim Lake of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction, halting the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) from proceeding with its administrative action against ABM Industry Groups.
-
Oct 31, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ryan Glasgow
On October 29, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) notice, inviting federal contractors to respond to FOIA requests that the OFCCP received related to federal contractors’ 2021 Type 2 EEO-1 Consolidated Reports.
-
Oct 14, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ryan Glasgow
Last year, the EEOC revealed its Strategic Enforcement Plan (“SEP”) for Fiscal Years 2024-2028. In the SEP, the EEOC stated that a subject matter priority was “the continued underrepresentation of women and workers of color in certain industries and sectors.” One such industry focus is on workers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields. It appears the EEOC is taking tangible steps towards this enforcement initiative.
-
Oct 3, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Ryan Glasgow
The Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (“Jarkesy”) was predicted to spur a wave of litigation challenging the constitutionality of various administrative agency’s civil enforcement powers. In our previous article, we noted that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) may be an agency that faces such a challenge. A complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas by ABM Industry Groups (“ABM”) does just that.
-
Sep 23, 2024 | 
law.com | Ryan Glasgow |Christopher M. Pardo |Katherine Sandberg
In August of this year, a Texas federal court blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s Noncompete Rule (16 C.F.R. Section 910.1-6) (Final Rule) on a nationwide basis for all employers. The Final Rule would have banned nearly all noncompetes for most types of workers and was set to go into effect on Sept. 4, 2024. Despite this favorable ruling, the future of the Final Rule is uncertain because of ongoing litigation in other jurisdictions.
-
Aug 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Christopher M. Pardo |Ryan Glasgow
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) approved a final rule banning most non-compete agreements between employers and their workers (the “Final Rule”). However, in the afternoon of Tuesday, August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E.
-
Aug 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Ryan Glasgow |Meredith Gregston |Elizabeth King
On July 26, 2024, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) released directive 2024-01 , which outlines updated procedures for expedited pre-enforcement conciliation. The directive provides guidance consistent with the OFCCP’s final rule titled Pre-Enforcement Notice and Conciliation Procedures which went into effect in September of 2023 (You can read our previous article regarding this final rule here).
