By: Evan Szarenski
On March 9, President Biden released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024, which will cover October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. In the days that followed, the U.S. Department of Labor has issued several documents that...
By: Terri Cordia and Bill Osterndorf
On March 14, 2023, the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP) launched its Mega Construction Project (Megaproject) Program. The Megaproject Program is another step towards OFCCP’s efforts to...
By: Cassie Alfheim
As predicted in DCI’s earlier blog post, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced today that the agency will open its Contractor Portal on March 31, 2023. This is the second year of OFCCP’s requirement...
By: Keli Wilson and Jasmine Beecham
This is part 4 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
Key takeaways associated with establishing psychological safety, as learned in the previous installment of this...
By: Chad Peddie and Tyler Wurtz
This is part 3 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
In the previous installment in this series, we discussed how employees, in general, evaluate the risks and potential...
By: Bre Timko and Dave Schmidt
On January 31, 2023, theEqual Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had a hearing, entitled “Navigating Employment Discrimination in AI and Automated Systems: A New Civil Rights Frontier”. This hearing, which...
By: Marcelle Clavette and Jasmine Beecham
This is part 2 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
An employee’s perspective on workplace culture plays a particularly important role in self-identification...
By: Sheryl Harmening
On January 26, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)announcedits proposal for updating the standardsused for collecting race and ethnicity data.OMBmost recently updated these standards in 1997 through Standard ...
By: Sheryl Harmening
Update as of February 14, 2023:
On February 14, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) extended the deadline to confirm objections to the release of EEO-1 reports to March 3, 2023, from February 17,...
By: Joanna Colosimo, Cassie Alfheim, and Leilani Seged
DCI has confirmed with the National Office of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that,in accordance with the published Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL)...
By: Tyler Wurtz and Marcelle Clavette
This is part 1 of our 8-part blog series, Psychological Safety and Advancing Workforce Equity.
Employers are increasingly taking a holistic approach in studying workforce equity, with a goal ofidentifying...
By: Kristen Pryor and Joanna Colosimo
The proposed changes discussed below focus on OFCCP asking for additional information at the outset of a compliance review, ostensibly to provide clarity to contractors about what is expected but also creating a...
By Amanda Bowman and Benjamin Kerner
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its first Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for federal fiscal year 2023 today, January 20, 2023. The list includes Supply and...
By: Zach Olsen and Lisa Harpe
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) proposed scheduling letter makes substantive additions and revisions with regard to reporting compensation for the desk audit submission. In this blog we will...
By: Dave Schmidt and Amanda Allen
In late December 2022, the New York City (NYC) Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued an updated set of proposed clarification rules for Local Law 144 (regulating the use of automated employment...
By: Bill Osterndorf
There are manyproposed revisionsin the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) scheduling letter and itemized listing that was released on November 20, 2022. One of the proposed revisions to the scheduling...
By: Bill Osterndorf and Evan Szarenski
On January 6, 2023, the State of Illinois published final administrative rules regarding the Equal Pay Registration Certificate that employers must secure. The administrative rules had been published in ...
