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The DC Insider - Employer Update Podcast
The DC Insider – Employer Update™ brings you insights and expertise from Washington, DC attorneys at FortneyScott. Each episode provides key updates and analyses employers need to know to stay on top of developments affecting the workplace.
Your Hosts:
David S. Fortney is a co-founder of Fortney & Scott, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm counseling and advising clients on the full spectrum of work-place related matters, including employment discrimination and labor matters, compliance programs, government contracting, international dispute resolution, and counseling matters, and developing strategies for avoiding or responding to workplace-related crises.
Burton J. Fishman has devoted his practice to developing the “law of the workplace,” an interdisciplinary approach that offers employers counsel and representation on a broad range of matters growing out of government regulation of business. His experience extends to the full spectrum of employment and labor matters, including employment discrimination, affirmative action (OFCCP), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and human resources counseling. In recent years, his practice has focused on assisting clients with the changing laws of pay equity, mandated leave, and similar workplace matters.
H. Juanita "Nita" Beecher is a nationally recognized expert on OFCCP and EEOC matters. She is Counsel to Fortney & Scott, LLC with a focus on OFCCP regulatory affairs. Ms. Beecher’s primary focus is labor and employment law with substantial experience with class investigations by the EEOC and OFCCP. She has more than 30 years of experience in labor and employment law particularly with class investigations by the OFCCP and the EEOC.
Episodes
96 episodes
DOL Update with Jonathan Berry, Solicitor of Labor
This episode features a timely conversation with Jonathan Berry, DOL’s Solicitor of Labor, discussing how the Solicitor prioritizes DOL’s enforcement efforts (focusing on the Big, the Bad and the Ugly) and the Department’s regulatory agenda.&nb...
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EO 14398 and the Procurement Power Play: Compliance, Contracts, and Consequences
The administration is reframing DEI compliance as a matter of “economy and efficiency” in federal contracting. FortneyScott attorneys Elizabeth Bradley, Nita Beecher, and Adriana Joens unpack EO 14398, explain how it differs from EO 14173, and ...
Trump Administration Continues to Push against DEI
The Trump Administration challenges based on DEI continue. Join David Fortney and Nita Beecher as they discuss the latest developments, including the FTC letter warning 42 law firms about participating in the Mansfield Certification program; th...
State of Civil Rights Under Trump 2.0
Join David Fortney, Nita Beecher and Burt Fishman as they discuss the altered state of workplace civil rights in the second Trump Administration. The panel reviews the legal landscape in the wake of President Trump’s executive orders elim...
Update with EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas
As the federal government shutdown ends, join David Fortney’s wide-ranging conversation with EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas as they discuss her new status as Chair and what to expect from the EEOC now that the agency has a quorum.
Benchmarking –Top Issues for Employers
In this episode, we discuss the current top issues for employers – AI, DEI and Pay Equity – that were highlighted at multiple employment conferences that David Fortney and FortneyScott attorneys Liz Bradley and Nita Beecher recently attended.&n...
The New Crusade—Religion at Work: Navigating the EEOC’s Compliance Priorities
In this episode, FortneyScott shareholder Leslie Silverman, a former EEOC Vice Chair and Commissioner, joins David to unpack how the Trump Administration and the EEOC are prioritizing religious freedom and accommodation, and what employers need...
The Playbook for the Federal Agencies: The new Regulatory Agenda and the Future of the Agencies
The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Agenda is the starting point for David, Nita, and Burt’s lively discussion of the consequences of the Administration’s de-regulatory agenda and its efforts to exert presidential control over all executive a...
DOL’s Lead Role on AI and the Future of Work
Join David in a special interview with Taylor Stockton, Chief Innovation Officer of the U.S. Department of Labor, as they discuss the Trump Administration’s newly released AI Action Plan and DOL’s lead responsibilities in expanding AI opportuni...
DOL Update in Trump 2.0—What Employers Need to Know
The Labor Department has a leading role in shaping and leading a wide range of the Trump Administration’s policies and initiatives affecting the workplace. Join David Fortney, Nita Beecher, and Adriana Joens as they discuss the significan...
Federal Contractor Compliance Update
The Trump Administration has been using multiple agencies to aggressively implement its attacks on “illegal DEI”. Join David, Liz and Nita as they discuss how federal contractors should respond to the latest on “illegal DEI” including OFC...
NLRB Update with Roger King
Roger King, Senior Labor and Employment Counsel at the HR Policy Association, joins David to discuss the latest on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Their conversation covers a range of topics from key developments impacting the NLRB, ...
Trump and the Unitary Executive
The organizing principle underlying many of the president’s actions – from broad Executive Orders, to elimination of Departments, to termination of agency leaders and thousands of civil servants – is the unitary executive theory. Join David, Ni...
Deregulation and Depopulating: Trump Administration Continues Onslaught on Administrative State
As President Trump reaches his 100th day, his assault on federal agencies continues as he expands his authority over every aspect of the Executive Branch of the federal government. Join David, Nita, and Burt’s spirited debate on the impac...
President Trump and the Workforce Agencies
The Trump Administration pushes to change the direction of workforce agencies while it continues to cut the government workforce. Join Nita and Burt as they review the management-friendly directions presaged at the Labor Department with n...
EEOC Demands DEI Data from 20 Law Firms
As part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to root out DEI and in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14230, Addressing Risks on Perkins Coie LLP, the EEOC Acting Chair of the EEOC sent lengthy inquiries to 20 major law fi...
Unitary Executive Claims Power over Agencies
President Trump continues the unprecedented expansion of his authority over the Executive Branch through Executive Orders by bringing independent agencies under the direct control of OMB – from personnel to substance of regulations, to budgets,...
Trump Administration Assaults on DEI Accelerate
The Administration’s efforts to eliminate DEI practices from both the public and private sectors have expanded to include memos and guidance from the Attorney General and the OPM. Join David, Nita, and Burt as they detail the breadth of the eff...
The Trump Administration Purges the NLRB and EEOC
Another hectic week for labor and employment lawyers as the Trump Administration puts the NLRB and EEOC in its sights. Join David Fortney and Nita Beecher as they discuss the practical implications of President Trump firing a Democratic ...
Rescission of EO 11246
FortneyScott begins its series of webinars regarding Pres. Trump's Executive Orders. This first focuses on the revocation of EO 11246. Join David Fortney and Elizabeth Bradley as they review what employers need to know in navigating...
DEI Attacks Escalate Ahead of Trump 2nd Inauguration
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump to a second term, numerous private corporations are rapidly scaling back their DEI initiatives. Some “red” state legislatures have even begun passing laws to ban DEI in all public sector recruiting, h...
A Time of Uncertainty
As more of President Trump’s personnel and policies are revealed, David, Nita, and Burt survey the changes that face the workplace agencies. Don’t miss this incisive and probing interchange designed to explore the future of DEI, of the OFCCP an...
The Trump Administration and the Workplace Agencies
President-elect Trump and his appointees planned radical reformation of the Federal government is expected to impact the workplace enforcement agencies. Join David, Nita, and Burt as they review the likely actions to install new leadershi...
FY2024: What the Agencies Have Done and What Is Their Future
In the wake of unprecedented Supreme Court decisions fundamentally changing the role of regulation and enforcement, David, Nita, and Burt review the major actions of the workplace agencies -- EEOC, NLRB, DOL/W&H/OFCCP – in light of th...
Global Trends in Unionization & Collective Bargaining
David discusses the global trends in unionization and collective bargaining with Alan Wild, an expert with 40-years of global employee relations experience. Alan and David review how multinational employers are coping with rapidly changing – an...