U.S. Chamber, Six States Join Oracle to Fight DOL Enforcement

Businesses groups and Republican attorneys general from six states are supporting Oracle Corp.’s lawsuit against the Labor Department’s federal contractor watchdog.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the HR Policy Association, and other groups said in a brief Friday that the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ anti-discrimination enforcement of federal contractors “far exceeds the agency’s statutory authority.” In a separate brief also filed Friday, attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, and West Virginia said the OFCCP exercises “unbridled lawmaking and judicial power alongside its proper executive role.”

The support for Oracle’s lawsuit against the OFCCP arrives ...