On Aug. 24, the Department of Labor issued final regulations...requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to disclose violations of 14 federal labor laws and state law equivalents, when bidding on a government contract... On Aug. 15, the revised sex discrimination regulations enforced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs went into effect...

[Interview with Juanita Beecher, lawyer at Fortney & Scott]

[Contractors] shouldn’t wait to begin compliance efforts. At the very least, contractors should immediately begin to [among other steps]:

• Establish a multi-discipline team including at a minimum—compliance, law, health and safety, and management;...
• Set up a process to collect data from the corporate entities on all activity with the 14 federal agencies and any state [occupational safety & health] agencies, as well as any arbitration or litigation on labor and employment law

...[In the new anti-discrimination rule, the] OFCCP...has expanded the definition of what is sex to include gender identity and pregnancy.