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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 courtesy letter to scheduling letter would be of interest to readers of this blog. The OFCCP utilizes the...

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 interest. Recall that all federal contractors and subcontractors in receipt of a supply and service...

Federal contractors and subcontractors that are covered under the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) are required to take affirmative action in employing and advancing covered veterans. In practice, this means that contractors...

OFCCP’s recent webinars on Directive 307 stated that compensation investigations will focus on individual race/ethnicity differences. If that is the case, a number of analytic questions require clarification.

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” letters that were sent at the end of 2012, rather than the traditional Corporate Scheduling Announcement...

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307 outlines policies for evaluating compensation data that depart in three primary ways from guidance presented in the rescinded Compensation Standards:

• No requirement to construct and analyze compensation data by Similarly...

OFCCP recently mailed its latest round of "courtesy" notices- the Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter- to federal contractor establishments around the country. The form letters, dated March 27, 2013 and generically addressed to the "Human...

by Keli Wilson, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting Group OFCCP officially rescinded the 2006 compensation standards and guidelines and released Directive 307 to replace previous guidance. Directive 307 describes the OFCCP procedures for compliance...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyWe have twice reported on USSA’s battle with the OFCCP. In an alert dated July 12, 2012, USSA filed an administrative complaint against the OFCCP on grounds that it violated it’s 4th...

On Nov. 15, 2012, OFCCP’s Senior Program Advisor Pam Coukos and Mid-Atlantic Regional Director Michele Hodge presented at the Washington Metro Industry Liaison Group (WMILG) meeting. Baltimore District Director Tom Wells and Arlington Area Director...

by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of TechnologyWe’ve seen this play before. We reported on USSA’s 4th Amendment challenge in an alert posted on July 17, 2012, and the results of that challenge in an alert posted on 9/24/12. In that...

Last week, the OFCCP sent out letters to federal contractors and subcontractors as “courtesy” notification of a supply and service compliance evaluation. Historically, the OFCCP sends a Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter (CSAL) to the...