On June 7, 2024, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its first Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for fiscal year 2024. Specifically, this list identifies around 500 federal supply...more
Tuesday, June 4, 2024, is the deadline to submit and certify the 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 Report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While the deadline has been extended occasionally in prior years, no such...more
6/3/2024
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that the Contractor Portal for federal contractors and subcontractors to certify compliance with their affirmative action plan (AAP) obligations opened on...more
On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will open the 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 Report for employers to report the race, ethnicity and gender of their employees. The EEO-1 reporting period...more
2/29/2024
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
As previously reported, in late December 2023, the Northern District of California ordered OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors it had previously withheld from production based on various exemptions under...more
2/16/2024
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
Despite objections by thousands of employers and its own continuing review of records, the OFCCP has been ordered by a federal court to produce all EEO-1 Type 2 reports of federal prime contractors and first-tier...more
1/25/2024
/ Data Collection ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Document Requests ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On October 31, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will open the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 Report for employers to report the race, ethnicity and gender of their employees (by job category) with a due date...more
9/8/2023
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, private sector employers with 100 or more employees and certain federal contractors with 50 or more employees are required to provide demographic information of their...more
8/2/2023
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Opportunity Clause in federal contracts requires employers to post a notice for employees regarding nondiscrimination. The Officer of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) adopted a new updated poster. In...more
Yesterday OFCCP announced that it is extending the deadline to respond to and submit objections pursuant to its August 19, 2022, Notice in the Federal Register regarding a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request from Will...more
9/16/2022
/ Document Requests ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Exemptions ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On August 19, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) published a Notice in the Federal Register regarding a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request from Will Evans, a...more
8/30/2022
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Confidential Information ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Document Requests ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
FOIA ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it will open the 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 Report on April 12, 2022 with a due date of May 17, 2022. The EEOC’s announcement indicates that both dates are...more
1/13/2022
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Labor Regulations ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
In an attempt to contain the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden issued two Executive Orders on September 9, 2021 that mandate COVID-19 vaccines for federal government employees and employees of federal government...more
9/10/2021
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Critical Infrastructure Sectors ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Essential Workers ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On July 29, 2021, the Biden Administration announced a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for certain employees of federal government contractors. ...more
7/30/2021
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Contractors ,
Health and Safety ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Masks ,
Personal Protective Equipment ,
Public Health ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On July 1, 2021, OFCCP issued its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) scheduling 750 federal contractor and subcontractor establishments for compliance evaluations in fiscal year 2021. ...more
On March 2, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) amended its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for supply and service contractors for fiscal year 2020 to remove all of the contractor...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced this week that it will open the EEO-1 Component 1 Report in April 2021. The EEO-1 requires covered employers to report by job category the race, ethnicity and...more
On October 21, 2020, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) continued to address the highly-controversial diversity and inclusion (D&I) training restrictions in Executive Order 13950....more
10/22/2020
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Civil Rights Act ,
Deregulation ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Training ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Race Relations ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Request For Information ,
Sexual Stereotyping ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
On September 11, 2020, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) online for public access. The CSAL identifies contractors who will be receiving...more
Craig Leen, Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) at the U.S. Department of Labor spoke on Monday, July 6, 2020 to lead off the National Industry Liaison Group’s 2020 Virtual Conference....more
On Friday Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released an updated Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form (CC-305). The new form is much shorter than the previous form and now fits on a single...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced May 7, 2020 that it will delay until March 2021 the annual filing of the EEO-1 Component 1 Report, which requires covered employers to report by job category the...more
5/11/2020
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires employers with at least 100 employees (and federal contractors with at least 50 employees) to file an EEO-1 Report with a count of employees by establishment and job...more
5/22/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Wage and Hour
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that employers covered by the EEO-1 reporting obligation must submit pay data broken down by job category, pay band, race, ethnicity and sex for both calendar...more
5/8/2019
/ Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On April 25, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia gave an oral ruling from the bench reportedly accepting the EEOC’s proposal to make employers submit their 2018 pay data by September 30, 2019....more
4/26/2019
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OMB ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour