On May 20, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission began accepting 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 reports. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, June 24. EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas issued this bulletin about the opening of the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection process.

On May 19, ABC participated in a listening session focused on the impact on small businesses of revising the definition of “waters of the United States” subject to Clean Water Act regulation and permitting.

On May 16, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the North America’s Building Trades Unions’ request for a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Defense and General Services Administration’s orders seeking to exempt certain federal construction contracts from the Biden administration’s PLA mandate.

On May 1, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it will pause enforcement of the 2024 Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act final rule in current enforcement matters while the agency reviews this regulation.

On May 5, as a part of the America at Work tour, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., visited an ABC member jobsite and participated in an Arizona Builders Alliance-led roundtable discussion in Tucson, Arizona.

ABC’s Free Enterprise Alliance has launched an issue advocacy campaign in Missouri, Kansas, Ohio and the Washington, D.C. metro area to educate elected officials and the public on Sen. Josh Hawley’s, R-Mo., Pro-Worker Framework for the 119th Congress that includes sections of the ABC-opposed Protecting the Right to Organize Act and the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.

The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, the watchdog for small businesses in the regulatory process, recently launched the Red Tape Hotline.

On April 23, ABC urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to streamline the federal permitting process under the Clean Water Act while protecting America’s navigable waters from pollution in comments submitted as part of the Waters Advocacy Coalition.

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at overhauling federal workforce development efforts.

On April 23, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued alternative permitting processes in response to President Donald Trump’s prior declaration of a National Energy Emergency, with the goal of reducing the federal permitting process for covered energy projects to no more than 28 days.