The U.S. Department of Labor is extending by two weeks
the comment period for its proposed rule governing the obligations of
federal contractors and subcontractors not to discriminate on the basis of sex
in their employment practices.
The extension ensures that the public has time to comment
on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 25, 2015, decision in Young v. United Parcel
Service. That decision involved application of Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to pregnancy discrimination in the
workplace. The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs follows Title VII principles when enforcing the law against employment
discrimination by federal contractors and subcontractors.
OFCCP published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the
Federal Register on January 30, 2015, with a March 31 deadline to submit
comments. The comment period will be extended for all comments through Tuesday,
April 14. To read and comment on the proposed rule, please visit http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/SDNPRM/index.html.
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