Recent Key Executive Orders Archives
Recent Key Executive Orders

Executive Order – Climate-Resilient International Development (not yet numbered)
September 23, 2014

This executive order requires that climate-resilience considerations be integrated into all international development work done by all agencies of the United States government, to the fullest legal extent.

Executive Order 13673 – Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces
July 31, 2014

This executive order requires potential federal government contractors to disclose labor law violations from the past three years before they can receive a contract and requires that certain agencies designate a “Labor Compliance Advisor.” Additionally, federal contractors with $1 million or more in contracts are prohibited from requiring their employees to enter into pre-dispute arbitration agreements for disputes arising out of Title VII or from torts related to sexual assault or harassment. This order permits existing contracts to stay as they currently are.

Executive Order 13672 – Further Amendments to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government, and Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity
July 21, 2014

This executive order adds the words “sexual orientation and gender identity” into existing executive orders that prohibit certain forms of discrimination in employment by federal contractors.

Executive Order 13665 – Nonretaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information
April 8, 2014

This executive order prohibits employers working under a government contract from retaliating against employees in regards to their employment for disclosure of compensation information.

Executive Order 13658 – A Minimum Wage for Contractors
February 12, 2014

This executive order raises the minimum wage for most federal contractors to $10.10 per hour beginning January 1, 2015. Additionally, beginning January 1, 2016, it empowers the Secretary of Labor to adjust the amount annually.

Additional recent executive orders have dealt with a plethora of issues, including penalizing individuals supporting certain foreign movements in places from South Sudan to Ukraine, expanding the eligibility for the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and establishing an executive board to review a particular labor dispute.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Ku Klux Klan founded

The US hate group known as the Ku Klux Klan was founded on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a reaction to reconstruction efforts following the Union victory in the American Civil War. The group would later become notorious for its attacks on Black Americans, being targeted by the Enforcement Act of 1871, which imposed civil and criminal liability for deprivation of constitutional rights. Read the Enforcement Act of 1871.  

Hamid Karzai born

On December 24, 1957, Hamid Karzai was born in Karz, Afghanistan. He would go on to become in 2004 his country's first elected president after the end of Taliban rule in 2001.