Six months after the beginning of the government’s 2024 fiscal year, Congress and the Biden White House finally reached a spending deal. And despite President Biden’s request for big funding increases for agencies such as OFCCP and the NLRB, they end

President Biden has submitted his fiscal year 2025 budget to Congress, and as with the President’s earlier budget requests, it calls for increased funding for the EEOC and other workplace regulators as well as for major policy changes such as a paid

A 2015 federal law requires agencies to increase civil penalties for violations every year to account for inflation. The Labor Department and other workplace enforcement agencies recently announced how much their fines are going up in 2024.

After a year (2022) in which compliance audits dropped to a several-year low, OFCCP picked up the pace last year with notable increases in both the number of audits conducted and the monetary remedies awarded.

Despite efforts by the Biden Administration to use federal antitrust law to criminally prosecute companies that conspire not to hire one another’s employees, federal juries have not gone along. As a result, it appears the Department of Justice is aba