It’s been a busy spring and early summer for the President and federal contractors with several new Executive Orders and a Presidential Memorandum on the issues of employee pay as well as sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination.  For those of you trying to keep it all straight, below is an up-to-date summary of the current stance of each action.

Please check back as we’ll periodically update the summary with further developments.

Executive Order 13658:  Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors

•  Signed:   February 12, 2014

• Effective Date:  applies to covered contracts where the solicitation for such contract is issued on or after January 1, 2015

• Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM):  79 FR 34568 – Comments due 7.28.14

Executive Order 13665:  Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information

•  Signed:  April 8, 2014

• Effective Date:  applies to contracts entered into on or after effective date of final Rules

• NPRM:  due 160 days after Order (mid-September 2014)

Presidential Memorandum — Advancing Pay Equality through Compensation Data Collection

• Signed:  April 8, 2014

• NPRM due 120 days after Memo (early-August 2014)

Executive Order 13672:  Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity(LBGT Discrimination)

•  Effective Date:  applies to contracts entered into on or after effective date of final Rules

• NPRM due 90 days after Order (mid-October 2014)