Subject: GEA Newsletter #06 April 15, 2022

The heat is on. On its way, that is. In preparation for the summer months, Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joined Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday to announce a new heat-related illness enforcement program.
OSHA has launched a National Emphasis Program in an attempt to protect millions of workers from heat illness and injury. NEPs are temporary programs that focus OSHA's resources on particular hazards. The organization will conduct heat-related inspections in an effort to prevent workers from suffering preventable injuries or fatalities.
"Tragically, the three-year average of workplace deaths caused by heat has doubled since the early 1990s," Walsh said. "From farm workers in California to construction workers in Texas and warehouse workers in Pennsylvania, heat illness — exacerbated by our climate's rising temperatures — presents a growing hazard for millions of workers.".....Continue Reading>>

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It's time to submit your EEO-1 data!

BY ROBIN SHEA ON 4.13.22
POSTED IN DISCRIMINATION

Starting today.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced that employers can submit their EEO-1 "Component 1" data starting today. The deadline to submit data is May 17. Here is the full announcement:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that the 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection is now open. The deadline for submitting and certifying 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 Report(s) is May 17, 2022. To meet this deadline, the EEOC strongly encourages eligible filers to begin the filing process as soon as possible.

For the 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection, the EEOC is continuing to modernize the agency’s EEO data collections and improve the quality of data collected. The EEOC is also improving the filing process by making it more user-friendly and streamlining functions, including additional self-service options, and providing a new Filer Support Team Message Center for filer support.

This new message center allows filers to submit their requests for assistance to the EEOC within the EEO-1 Online Filing System as well as update requests with new information, terminate requests, and track the status of requests. It also provides filers with more self-service referencing capabilities to quickly connect to relevant materials. All filer inquiries regarding the 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection should be submitted through the Filer Support Team Message Center.

Filers should visit the dedicated EEO-1 Component 1 website at www.eeocdata.org/eeo1 to access the online filing system and to find this year’s updates and resource materials. Filers needing additional assistance can use the Filer Support Team Message Center at www.eeocdata.org/eeo1/support/contactus.

The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection that requires all private sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees meeting certain criteria, to submit workforce demographics including data by race/ethnicity, sex, and job categories. The filing by eligible employers of the EEO-1 Component 1 Report is required under section 709(c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-8(c), and 29 CFR 1602.7-.14 and 41 CFR 60-1.7(a). Employers can find additional eligibility information on the EEO-1 Component 1 website at www.eeocdata.org/eeo1."

Party on, employers!

Tags: EEO-1 Reports, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Part 1: Cybersecurity and the Role of Management
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Cybersecurity has long been viewed as a “tech” issue that only concerns a company’s IT department. Not anymore! In this episode, Ron Sarian, Chair of Constangy's Digital Workplace & Data Privacy Practice Group, shares his unique background in handling cybersecurity issues as both in-house and now outside counsel, discusses emerging threats to businesses of all sizes in this area, and explains how cybersecurity requires management from different departments within a business – even Human Resources - to work together cohesively.

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NLRB General Counsel Wants to Make ‘Captive Audience’ Meetings Illegal

By Allen Smith, J.D.

April 12, 2022

For more than 70 years, employers have had the right to convene "captive audience" meetings with employees about their statutory labor rights, including the right to refrain from forming unions. On April 7, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced in a memo that she will ask the NLRB to find such mandatory meetings unlawful.

Thomas Payne, an attorney with Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, described the memo as "a thinly veiled attempt to make organizing easier for unions by taking away a tool that employers have to make sure employees are fully informed of their rights and how the organizing process works.".....Continue Reading>>

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