Today, November 13, 2019, OFCCP announced the release of a new Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) for construction contractors.
Construction contractors will be able to use the new TAG as a self-assessment tool to review their current hiring...
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November 13, 2019
In honor of Veteran’s Day, OFCCP released a supplemental CSAL list containing 500 establishments selected for a VEVRAA Focused Review. This list was announced by Craig Leen at the National Industry Liaison Group (NILG) conference in August 2019. The...
OFCCP’s Contractor Assistance Portal now includes a feature where employers can “Ask OFCCP A Question” via an interactive discussion board. This new tool is in line with OFCCP’s pillars of transparency and certainty, as contractors and...
November 07, 2019
On November 6th 2019, OFCCP announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking intended to declare health care providers who solely receive TRICARE funds as sub-contractors exempt from OFCCP oversight under Executive Order (E.O.) 11246, Section 503 of the...
November 05, 2019
EEOC announced earlier this week that they will host a public hearing on the proposed changes to the EEO-1 report. As summarized in a previous blog, EEOC is seeking approval to renew the “Component 1” data collection it has required since 1966,...
November 04, 2019
Judge Chutkan has denied EEOC’s request to officially close the NORC portal for EEO-1 Component 2 data collection even though EEOC contends they have fulfilled the court’s order to collect at least the average number of historical filers. As...
October 31, 2019
In October, the Office of Federal Contract and Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released, for the first time, a Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) to help educational institutions better understand their obligations under the equal employment opportunity...
October 11, 2019
Today, October 11, 2019, OFCCPreleased a new technical assistance guide for educational institutions with federal contracts.According to OFCCP, federal contractors will be able to use this new technical assistance guide as a self-assessment tool...
September 27, 2019
Today, September 27, 2019, EEOC posted an announcement that it would continue to collect Component 2 data until it reaches what the Court has determined to be the target response rate. As EEOC stated:
"So long as the Court’s order is in effect...
September 25, 2019
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued three reports since September 2016 that offer the OFCCP and EEOC recommendations for improving enforcement of equal employment opportunity policy.1 On September 19, 2019, the GAO...
September 16, 2019
OFCCP announced today a new feature to their Contractor Assistance Portal. Contractors can now participate in a chatroom where they can pose questions to each other, as well as like and comment on posts to the board. This feature will allow...
September 13, 2019
On September 12, 2019 the Component 2 EEO-1 HelpDesk released an answer to an FAQ they have been receiving regarding company user IDs for the NORC system. As a reminder, companies are required to use new login information when filing via the NORC...
