The Dept. of Labor proposes to revise regulations under the Davis-Bacon Act and the Copeland Anti-Kickback Act to better protect the personal privacy of laborers and mechanics employed on covered federal construction contracts.
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Due to problems with its online filing system, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced an extension of the EEO-1 filing deadline from September 30 to October 15.
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An employee arrives at work, parks his car in the company parking lot, and as he is getting out of his car he slams the car door shut and “pinches” his finger. Or she slips while exiting the car and falls onto the parking lot, sustaining a knee injury. Read more

Most private employers with 100 or more employees, and federal contractors with 50 or more employees must file their 2008 EEO-1 report by September 30 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's EEO-1 Joint Reporting Committee.
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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has issued a policy directive for federal contractors on the use of electronic recordkeeping systems to comply with its record retention regulations. Read more

The U.S. Dept. of Labor has issued its final rule on requirements for federal contractors to track and annually report on the number of veterans they have in their workforce. Read more

Pension and welfare benefit plans and service providers now have additional time to comply with changes to the 2009 Form 5500 and changing to a wholly electronic filing system—compliance with the changes won’t be required until the due date for the plan’s 2009 Form 5500. The 2009 Form 5500 package was published in the Federal Register on Nov. Read more

Federal contractors must file their 2007 VETS-100 report using the same reporting categories as the 2006 form. The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service encourages online submission of the report via its website; the VETS-100 form is not being mailed this year. Read more

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has issued its final rule for federal contractors increasing the threshold dollar amount for covered federal contracts from $25,000 to $100,000; changing the categories of veterans protected by the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readju Read more

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The list of 345,000+ employers who have enrolled in E-Verify, the federal government’s electronic employment eligibility verification system, has been posted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Read more

As we move out of the recession, employers are evaluating the need to upgrade outdated HR Information Systems, and focusing attention on integrated talent management suites that enable better analytics and more effective decision-making. Read more

Private employers with 100 or more employees, prime federal contractors and first tier subcontractors with 50 or more employees and contracts of $50,000 or more, and financial institutions serving as a federal depository or an issuing and paying agent for U.S. Savings Bonds and Notes must file their EEO-1 Report by Sept. 30. Read more

The annual Employer Information Report EEO-1, which requires company employment data to be reported and categorized by race/ethnicity, gender and job categories must be filed by September 30, 2011; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has opened online filing for the survey. Read more

The filing period for the Employer Information Report EEO-1, otherwise known as the EEO-1 Report, is now open, and the filing deadline is September 30, 2012. Read more