On June 7, 2024, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published its FY 2024 Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for Supply and Service Contractors. The CSAL is a courtesy notification, and the...more
On June 5, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published its FY 2023 Construction Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL). The CSAL includes 250 employers that OFCCP has identified as...more
On April 25, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget approved the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) updated form prospective and current employees must use to voluntarily self-identify as an individual...more
In December 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) implemented a new requirement that all covered federal contractors and subcontractors annually certify that they have current affirmative action...more
On May 20, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published its FY 2022 Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for supply and service contractors. OFCCP has stated that it will immediately...more
On February 1, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) presented a webinar on its new contractor portal through which covered contractors are being asked to certify whether they are meeting their...more
On December 2, 2021 the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an announcement introducing its new contractor portal. OFCCP describes the portal as a “platform where covered contractors must certify...more
On September 1, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the Department of Labor sub-agency charged with enforcing affirmative action and non-discrimination requirements imposed on federal contractors...more
9/1/2021
/ Affirmative Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Non-Discrimination Rules ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
For years, many federal contractors have criticized the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for misusing statistical methods to support allegations of discrimination against federal contractors and for...more
On July 2, 2020, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a final rule1 amending its regulations to confirm the agency lacks jurisdiction over health care providers whose sole government contract is...more
7/8/2020
/ Affirmative Action ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Department of Veterans Affairs ,
Federal Contractors ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
NDAA ,
NPRM ,
OFCCP ,
Public Comment ,
Rehabilitation Act ,
TRICARE
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on March 27, 2019, that it is lowering the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark to 5.9...more
Generally, federal contractors must develop a written affirmative action program for every physical location with 50 or more employees....more
On August 24, 2018, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued three new directives, 2018-05, 2018-06, and 2018-07. While directive 2018-05 has received most of the attention...more
On August 10, 2018, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a new directive, 2018-04, announcing a plan to implement focused reviews of contractors’ compliance with Executive...more
8/15/2018
/ Administrative Review ,
Affirmative Action ,
Cooperative Compliance Regime ,
Disability Discrimination ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Rehabilitation Act ,
Risk Management ,
Veterans ,
Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA)
On August 10, 2018, Craig Leen, Acting Director of the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), issued a new directive, 2018-03...more
A Promise of Greater Transparency and Consistency -
In recently meeting with the OFCCP’s new leadership, we were pleased to hear that they are committing to increasing transparency and achieving consistency across regional...more
This is the time of year when employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees must prepare and file their annual EEO-1 reports – documents that provide the government with details...more
8/24/2016
/ Affirmative Action ,
Data Collection ,
EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Pay ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
OFCCP ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Wage and Hour
On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion for the second time in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, (Fisher II), a case that directly questioned whether race can be considered at all in college...more
6/27/2016
/ Affirmative Action ,
Civil Rights Act ,
College Admissions ,
Colleges ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Diversity ,
Educational Institutions ,
Equal Protection ,
Fisher v University of Texas ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Race Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Strict Scrutiny Standard ,
Title VII ,
Universities ,
University of Texas
Over the past several years, we have written repeatedly about the efforts of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (the OFCCP) to gain jurisdiction over health care providers based solely on providers'...more
5/15/2014
/ Affirmative Action ,
Contractor Audits ,
Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Jurisdiction ,
Military Service Members ,
OFCCP ,
TRICARE