EEOC, DOL Wage Arm Ink Broad Deal to Team Up on Enforcement (1)

The US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have signed a wide-ranging agreement to collaborate through data sharing and to enforce major employment laws, including two recent pregnancy-bias statutes.

The agencies said Thursday that the memorandum of understanding would permit them to coordinate efforts and share information on issues from workplace equal pay and leave violations to anti-bias laws. The PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act and Pregnant Workers Fairness Act are two of the newest federal discrimination laws that the agencies noted in their statement on the MOU’s launch.

The MOU, which required ...