OFCCP Releases ‘EEO is the Law’ Poster Supplement for Federal Contractors

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a nationwide I-9 audit initiative on July 1, 2009, issuing Notices of Inspection (NOIs) to 652 employers (see the ICE press release). This action confirms the new method of enforcement promised by representatives of the Obama Administration. In April 2009, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano indicated that ICE would focus its worksite enforcement program resources on the criminal prosecution of employers that knowingly hire illegal workers and that ICE would use all available civil and administrative tools, including civil fines and debarment, to penalize and deter illegal employment.

On February 23, 2023, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that a Catholic university in Florida is exempt from the Board’s jurisdiction as a religious institution. But the case tees up the test for the religious institution exemption to be overturned by the full Board—which could open up more religious educational institutions to Board jurisdiction.

On October 30, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Texas AFL-CIO both filed Notices of Appeal in a highly-watched case involving the invalidation of controversial federal overtime regulations that had been scheduled to go into effect on December 1, 2016.