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Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
EEOC Rescinds Affirmative Action Guidance: What Employers Need to Know About Title VII, DEI Programs, and Compliance Risks
EEOC Rescinds Affirmative Action Guidance: What Employers Need to Know About Title VII, DEI Programs, and Compliance Risks The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) formally rescinded the federal guidance employers…
Labor & Employment Insights
Red Carded: 40-Year-Old EEOC Affirmative Action Guidance Removed from the Game
By Diana Evans, Jennifer M. Trulock
On June 29, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind two policy documents laying out steps employers can take to increase representation of historically marginalized groups in…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
The EEOC’s Regulatory Agenda: 10 Signs of Intent
By By T. Scott Kelly, James J. Plunkett, Publisher, Nonnie L. Shivers
Specifically, the EEOC identified ten actions it intends to pursue, including regulatory proposals to rescind the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP), eliminate the annual EEO-1 report, and withdraw…
The Law and Other Anomalies
EEOC Formally Eliminates Affirmative Action
Monday the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission formally deleted support materials permitting affirmative action in cases where it was deemed appropriate to overcome past or present barriers to equal opportunity…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
EEOC Rescinds Decades-Old Affirmative Action Guidance Under Title VII
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced today that it is rescinding its interpretive guidelines regarding affirmative action under Title VII and the affirmative action section of its compliance…
Employment Law Letter
EEOC Rescinds Longstanding Affirmative Action Guidance
What Changed. On June 30, 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind two agency policy documents that had been in place for roughly 40 years: the…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
New Rules for Government Contractors: Compliance Changes for the Construction Industry
Significant changes to federal contracting rules are reshaping how businesses interact with the U.S. government, particularly when it comes to compliance, workforce policies, and pricing strategies. These changes stem…
Legal History Blog
Milligan on the Affirmative Duty of Racial Repair
By Dan Ernst
Joy Milligan, University of California, Berkeley Law School, has posted The Constitution of Racial Repair: A Reconstructed History, which is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review:If affirmative action is dead,…
Gov Con Employment Exchange
Announcing a New Chapter: The GovCon Employment Exchange
By Scott M. Pechaitis, Jeremy S. Schneider, Laura A. Mitchell
We are excited to share an important update with our readers. The Affirmative Action Law Advisor is evolving — and with that evolution comes a new name: the GovCon Employment…
Jotwell
Drilling Down on Anti-DEI Case Results
Michael Selmi, DEI and the Private Workplace, available at SSRN (September 11, 2025).Professor Michael Selmi’s 2025 essay, DEI and the Private Workplace, examines some of the court rulings in the…