Employment Law Report

By Julie A. Laemmle

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) proposed new EEO-1 Form is on hold indefinitely pending further review by the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”).

The proposed EEO-1 Form, created during the Obama Administration, seeks to combat pay inequality by including more categories for ...

By Stephen Hall

Once-in-a-generation patent reform was introduced in our country about five years ago.  Similar to many major initiatives, it may have reaped a few unintended consequences as well.  Andrei Iancu, current nominee for USPTO Director, has written about one of these consequences that affects certain procedures at the Patent ...

By Daniel Reed

The Justice Department will no longer fight to preserve President Barrack Obama’s proposed overtime rule that a federal judge declared invalid in August.

The Obama-era rule would have required employers to pay overtime to most salaried workers who earn less than $47,476 annually, a sharp increase from the current annual salary ...

It’s been a good week for employers – at least from a governmental regulation perspective. Yesterday, we wrote about relaxed enforcement of the EEOC’s EEO-1 form requirements. That means employers will not need to provide wage data on EEO-1 forms to be submitted by March 31, 2018. (Click here for yesterday’s article.)

We had no sooner ...

That noise you just heard? It was employers across the country breathing a collective sigh of relief. The federal government’s Office of Management & Budget (“OMB”) announced this week that it is delaying enforcement of the wage and hour analysis portion of the new EEO-1 form (Component 2 of the form). However, Component 1, which seeks ...