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Certification is Live for OFCCP's New Contractor Portal

April 04, 2022

By Amanda Bowman, Rosemary Cox, Bill Osterndorf

On March 31, 2022, OFCCP opened the certification portion of the agency’s new Contractor Portal. OFCCP developed the Contractor Portal as a means to ensure that federal contractors and subcontractors...

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OFCCP Budget Justification for Fiscal Year 2023 Now Available

March 31, 2022

By Bill Osterndorf, Joanna Colosimo

OFCCP has released its Congressional Budget Justification for the fiscal year (FY) 2023. It can be found in full on the U.S. Department of Labor website.  

In the overview section, OFCCP highlighted the following...

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OFCCP Releases Directive 2022-02

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 ...

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Rising Accountability for Corporate Board Diversity

November 16, 2021

There is rising accountability regarding corporate board diversity, as evidenced by a rule Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted. This rule approves changes made by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) that requires Nasdaq-listed...

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OFCCP Announces Proposal Policy on EO 11246 Religious Exemptions

November 08, 2021

OFCCP has announced a proposal to rescind the final rule “Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption,” which has been in effect since Jan. 8, 2021. The Federal Register will publish the proposal to...

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OFCCP to Require Use of New Census Data

September 10, 2021

On Friday, September 3, OFCCP announced that it would require the use of new census data for affirmative action plans developed on or after January 1, 2022. This new census data is referred to as the 2014-2018 Equal Employment Opportunity Tabulation...

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OFCCP Releases New Scheduling List for Construction Contractors

September 02, 2021

On September 1, 2021, OFCCP published a new corporate scheduling announcement list (CSAL) for federal construction contractors and subcontractors. This release follows the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) July 6th approval of the agency’s new

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OFCCP Revisits Use of EEO-1 Pay Data

September 02, 2021

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a notice in the Federal Register stating that OFCCP plans to evaluate the 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 component 2 pay data to assess the utility for providing insight into pay disparities across industries and...

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OMB Approves OFCCP’s Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface

September 01, 2021

On August 31, 2021 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved OFCCP’s Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface. The final notification states that the verification was approved with change and the agency has also published a final...

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Maya Raghu Joins OFCCP as Deputy Director for Policy

July 21, 2021

Maya Raghu has joined the U.S. Department of Labor’s OFCCP as the Deputy Director for Policy, effective July 19th, 2021. 

Ms. Raghu previously served as the Director of Workplace Equality and Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, where...

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OFCCP Acknowledges Release of the 2014-2018 Census EEO Tabulation

July 07, 2021

Contractors are now able to use the updated labor force demographics with the most recent release of the 2014-2018 Census EEO Tabulation. While the release has been much anticipated from the current outdated 2006-2010 data, at this time OFCCP has...

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DCI Introduces DCI Dashboards for AAP Data

July 07, 2021
The DCI Software Division has released our newest web application: DCI Dashboards for AAP Data. Throughout the design and development of the DCI Dashboards, two overarching goals guided our work: provide our clients with innovative ways to view...
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