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Compliance Evaluations: From Courtesy Letter to Scheduling Letter

Given the recent wave of OFCCP courtesy letters sent to federal contractors this month, we thought a short review of the process in moving from...

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OFCCP Audit Punch List

Given the recent wave of OFCCP courtesy and scheduling letters, we thought that a blog on early preparations in the OFCCP audit process would be of...

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U.S. Census Bureau Releases Disability Employment Tabulation

In an announcement released on March 14th, the U.S. Census Bureau discussed the unemployment rate of workers with disabilities based on the new...

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Outreach to Veterans: Are You Meeting Your Obligations?

Federal contractors and subcontractors that are covered under the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) are required to take...

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Race/Ethnicity Subgroup Analysis in Compensation Analyses: A Change in OFCCP Protocol

OFCCP’s recent webinars on Directive 307 stated that compensation investigations will focus on individual race/ethnicity differences. If that is the...

Issued Courtesy Letters Take Place of CSAL

OFCCP recently issued a large wave of announcement letters, as noted in the blog last week. These letters are in the form of the same “courtesy”...

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Criminal Background Checks to Get A Close Look

In the past year, both EEOC and OFCCP have given notice that they will be carefully watching employers’ policies on hiring criminal offenders. In...

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What Changed With Directive 307?

OFCCP’s Directive 307 outlines policies for evaluating compensation data that depart in three primary ways from guidance presented in the rescinded...

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Key Affirmative Action Case

The case is Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which the Supreme Court granted certiorari on March 25, 2013 [2013 U.S. LEXIS 2504]....

OFCCP Sends Latest Round of CSAL Notices to Contractor Establishments

OFCCP recently mailed its latest round of "courtesy" notices- the Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter- to federal contractor establishments...

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COURT ORDERS EEOC TO PRODUCE WITNESS FOR DEPOSITION REGARDING WHETHER PRE-SUIT INVESTIGATION OCCURRED

The case is EEOC v. Grane Healthcare, decided on 3/25/13 by Judge Kim R. Gibson of the Western District of Pennsylvania [2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS...

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District Court Rules in Favor of Employer in Credit Check Case

The case is EEOC v. Kaplan Higher Learning decided on January 28 by Judge Patricia A. Gaughan of the District Court for the Northern District of...