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  • USCIS Announces Revised Form I-9
    • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a Notice today in the Federal Register announcing a revised Form I-9. For more information, click here for details from our affiliate consulting firm, Workplace HR.
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  • OFCCP Issues New Compensation Directive and Rescinds Voluntary Guidelines and Compensation Standards

    • The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced today, February 26, that effective February 28, 2013 there will be significant changes in how the OFCCP addresses compensation in compliance audits and enforcement proceedings. These changes effectively open virtually every federal contractor’s actions, policies and practices that affect compensation to scrutiny, review and possible challenge by OFCCP.

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  • 2013 OFCCP Criminal Record Directive
    • The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released a new Directive 306 on “Complying with Nondiscrimination Provisions: Criminal Record Restrictions and Discrimination Based on Race and National Origin.” The OFCCP’s Criminal Record Directive issued January 29, 2013, and is effectively immediately.
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Senator Menendez Requests that the Fortune 500 Companies Complete a Diversity Survey

By David Fortney, Esq.

See the letter from Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat from New Jersey, requesting that the Fortune 500 companies complete a Diversity Survey Instrument by May 1st.

 

The survey requests information about minority representation on each company’s board and senior management and in the company’s procurement of goods and services.  The Senator states that he is “conducting the survey to gain a better understanding of Hispanic participation in our corporate executive teams, board rooms and procurement practices.”  Senator Menendez further explains that he “intend[s] to have a public presentation of the data compiled from companies that participate, as well as shed light on those that do not.”

 Please contact the FortneyScott attorney with whom you work to discuss how you may want to respond, particularly because the survey requests information that otherwise typically would not be in the public domain and need not be disclosed to the government under existing reporting procedures.

This update is for general information purposes only and is not intended to provide legal counsel or advice.  Employers should retain experienced legal counsel to obtain advice about the effects of these developments on their particular circumstances.

For more information, please contact David Fortney, Esq. at dfortney@fortneyscott.com.

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