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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
On March 25, 2019, the OFCCP released its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) online for public access. The CSAL identifies 3,500 contractor establishments that will be audited by OFCCP, with a portion of those...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently announced that EEO-1 Reporting will open in early March 2019, and covered employers must submit their EEO-1 reports on or before May 31, 2019. ...more
3/1/2019
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Civil Rights Act ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Gap ,
Race Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Title VII ,
Wage and Hour
With the posting of 2019 CSAL notices possibly imminent, government contractors should prepare for the fact that a portion (approximately 500 out of 3,500 total) of the OFCCP’s FY 2019 compliance evaluations will be Section...more
It has been reported that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will be issuing Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSAL) in February....more
Last Friday, OFCCP issued its first three directives of the 2019 fiscal year. With its new Compliance Review Procedures Directive (2019-01), OFCCP rescinds the Obama administration’s Active Case Enforcement (ACE) Directive...more
On November 30, 2018, the OFCCP made true on OFCCP Acting Director Leen’s comments in October that OFCCP was planning to implement an opinion letter program, issuing the Opinion Letters and Desk Help Directive (2019-03). ...more
On October 18, 2018, OFCCP Acting Director Craig Leen gave a 2-hour presentation at the National Employment Law Institute’s Affirmative Action Update on “What’s on the OFCCP Director’s Desk”. ...more
A second wave of the Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) were released to 750 more contractors. As we previously reported, 1,000 CSALs were mailed in February, with scheduling letters that followed on March 19,...more
Following last year’s trend, the OFCCP’s website indicates that the Agency mailed 1,000 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs) on February 1, 2018. ...more
On March 24, 2014, new regulations for affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities from the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) took...more
The Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) enforces laws imposing affirmative action and equal employment opportunity obligations on all federal contractors and subcontractors. For...more
New disability regulations issued by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) require covered federal contractors and subcontractors to invite applicants and employees to self-identify their disability...more