Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Come Jan. 20, former Vice President Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the U.S. 46th president. In the run-up to the election, the Biden campaign focused on pay equity issues and closing the wage gap as part of its platform to appeal to female voters.
For federal government contractors, this focus is likely to translate to renewed enforcement efforts on pay discrimination issues from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Contractors should expect this increase in enforcement activity notwithstanding the fact that the Trump-era OFCCP extracted a record amount of discrimination settlements from federal government contractors in 2020. Although the OFCCP focuses on countering alleged discrimination by federal contractors in a variety of personnel transactions such as hiring, promotions, pay and terminations its compensation audits have been a source of particular frustration for contractors. The Obama-era OFCCP, which is the best pred