By: Joanna Colosimo and Mitchell Chamberlin
On January 23, 2025, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a statement in response to an Executive Order President Trump issued titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and...
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January 24, 2025
January 22, 2025
By: Joanna Colosimo & Mitchell Chamberlin
Last night, President Trump revoked Executive Order 11246 with a new Order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity."This new Order effectively ends affirmative action in...
By: Joanna Colosimo
On August 24, 2023, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted an “Approved with Change” action for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) revisions...
August 25, 2023
By: Joanna Colosimo, Bill Osterndorf, Amanda Bowman
On August 24, 2023, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted an “Approved with Change” action for OFCCP’s proposed revisions to its ...
By: Joanna Colosimo
The Supreme Court is expected to provide a final decision in the cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) by the Students for Fair Admissions in the next month. The casescenter around a long-held practice...
May 02, 2023
By: Joanna Colosimo
This article was originally published in WorldatWork's #evolve Magazine and has been modified for the DCI blog.
A growing number of organizations have experienced pressure (often from corporate and activist shareholders) to...
By: Joanna Colosimo and Zach Olsen
On April 17, 2023, aggregated company race/ethnicity and sex counts by EEO-1 category as a part of the EEO-1 consolidated reports from 2016-2020 were released for federal contractors and subcontractors that did not...
March 29, 2023
By: Joanna Colosimo
Update as of March 30, 2023:
On March 30, Jenny Yang sent a personal message to the OFCCP stakeholder community discussing her new role and reflecting on her time at OFCCP.
March 29, 2023:
As reported yesterday in various...
February 01, 2023
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)...
March 31, 2022
By Joanna Colosimo, Bill Osterndorf
On March 31, 2022, OFCCP released their second directive under the Biden administration, Directive 2022-02. This Directive explicitly rescinds and replaces DIR 2018-06 (Contractor Recognition), DIR 2018-08 ...
