How prepared is your organization? Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies have faced increased...more
8/23/2024
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Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Federal Contractors ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Mentor-Protege Program ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Training
New audit list dropped June 7th. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs released a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL). The CSAL is a courtesy notification for contractors that they will be...more
6/10/2024
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Contractor Audits ,
CSALs ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Scheduling Letters ,
Training
Traditional rules apply to AI, too!
In response to President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs...more
The Office of Management and Budget updated the federal government’s standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting information on race and ethnicity. The government’s standards for classifying race and ethnicity...more
The goal drops yet again. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the new annual hiring benchmark for protected veterans is 5.2 percent. Effective March 31, the benchmark drops from 5.4 percent to...more
BREAKING: OFCCP announces this year's reporting cycle. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs now requires covered contractors to certify on an annual basis that they have affirmative action plans in place. The...more
Another chapter has unfolded in the ongoing saga relating to the unprecedented and massive FOIA request for all federal contractors’ EEO-1 Reports. As we previously reported, Will Evans, a reporter with The Center for...more
Don’t be late. Federal contractors with a contract worth $150,000 or more are required to file a VETS-4212 Report, which is due on September 30 of each year.
The VETS-4212 Report generally requires information about a...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has required filing of the EEO-1 Report since 1966. Generally, all private employers with 100 or more employees must file the EEO-1 Report on an annual basis. Additionally, prime...more
9/13/2023
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Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Foreign Corporations ,
NAICS ,
Pay Data ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Spinoffs ,
Wage and Hour
Another 1,000 contractors slated for audit.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List. This new list includes 1,000 contractors for establishment reviews,...more
Finally!
After considerable delay, and approval from the Office of Management and Budget, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that the portal for 2022 EEO-1 Reports would open on October 31, 2023....more
Your next audit will be significantly more burdensome.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced its new Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing effective immediately. As anticipated, the new desk audit...more
Back to the “gotcha” days at OFCCP.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a Final Rule that rolls back various enforcement procedures codified during the Trump Administration. While the Final Rule...more
On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court held that admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by using...more
7/6/2023
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Civil Rights Act ,
College Admissions ,
Diversity ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Protection ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
SCOTUS ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina ,
Title VII
You may have forgotten this was even “a thing.”
Remember back in 2021 when President Biden issued Executive Order 14042, which required many federal contractors to ensure that employees working on federal contracts had...more
Contractors must use the new form by July 25.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the standard form contractors are required to use when soliciting disability status from applicants and...more
Expectations lowered yet again.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the new annual hiring benchmark for protected veterans is 5.4 percent. Effective March 31, the benchmark dropped from 5.5...more
OFCCP Director heads to White House.
Jenny Yang has been Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs since the beginning of the Biden Administration. Ms. Yang announced this week that she is departing...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that the Contractor Portal will open on March 31 and that contractors will have until June 29 to certify compliance.
The procedures appear to be similar to last...more
The importance of certifying compliance becomes evident.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List, identifying the contractors that will be slated for a...more
Notices have gone to some contractors who objected to the release.
As we previously reported, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs received a Freedom of Information Act request for the consolidated EEO-1...more
Bad news for contractors.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is requesting comments on its proposed changes to the Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing – the documents that initiate a compliance...more
Replacing the “EEO is the Law” poster is not optional.
As my colleague Robin Shea noted on Employment & Labor Insider, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a new “Know Your Rights” poster, which updates and...more
The new deadline is October 19.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it has extended the deadline for federal contractors to object to the release of their Type 2 (consolidated) EEO-1...more
The requirement is not new, but the process is.
On Friday, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs launched the Notification of Construction Contract Award Portal or NCAP, which provides an online mechanism...more