{"id":110,"date":"2016-06-27T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-06-27T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T19:58:05","slug":"ofccp-issues-final-rule-updating-federal-contractor-sex-discrimination-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/2016\/06\/27\/ofccp-issues-final-rule-updating-federal-contractor-sex-discrimination-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"OFCCP Issues Final Rule Updating Federal Contractor Sex Discrimination Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to bring its sex discrimination guidelines\u00a0\u201cfrom the \u2018Mad Men\u2019 era to the modern era,\u201d on June 14, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/articles\/2016\/06\/15\/2016-13806\/discrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Final Rule<\/span><\/u><\/a> containing sex discrimination guidelines for federal government contractors and subcontractors.<\/p>\n<p>While many provisions in the updated guidelines simply bring the guidelines up to speed with current law, the guidelines contain important pronouncements of which every federal contractor should be aware &#8211; from pay discrimination and pregnancy accommodation to sex stereotyping and protections for transgendered employees.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this <em>Duane Morris Alert<\/em>, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/ofccp_issues_final_rule_on_federal_contractor_sex_discrimination_guidelines_0616.html\">www.duanemorris.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to bring its sex discrimination guidelines\u00a0\u201cfrom the \u2018Mad Men\u2019 era to the modern era,\u201d on June 14, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Final Rule containing sex discrimination guidelines for federal government contractors and subcontractors. While many provisions in the updated guidelines simply &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/2016\/06\/27\/ofccp-issues-final-rule-updating-federal-contractor-sex-discrimination-guidelines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OFCCP Issues Final Rule Updating Federal Contractor Sex Discrimination Guidelines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[212],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"authors":[{"term_id":212,"user_id":214,"is_guest":0,"slug":"cddurham","display_name":"Christopher D. Durham","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2015\/02\/durhamchristopher-125x150.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Durham","first_name":"Christopher D.","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherddurham.html","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/christopherddurham.html\">Read Christopher's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/governmentcontractslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}