OFCCP has announced it is extending the deadline for contractors to respond to the Agency’s August 19, 2022 Notice of Request Under the Freedom of Information Act for Federal Contractors’ Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Report Data. The new deadline by which affected contractors need to submit objections is October 19, 2022 to “ensure that Covered
Agency Notice
OFCCP Announces Notice of Widespread Request for Contractors EEO-1 Reports and Opportunity to Object
Posted in Agency Notice
According to OFCCP, on June 2, 2022, the Center for Investigative Reporting sent OFCCP a request for the disclosure of
. . .Type 2 EEO-1 reports for all federal contractors, including first-tier subcontractors, from 2016-2020….
The Center for Investigative Reporting, and other persons and organizations, have a history of requesting EEO-1 reports for various…
Study of EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data Released
By Laura A. Mitchell on
As announced, as the 2022 NILG National Conference was coming to a close, EEOC released the long-awaited National Academy of Sciences report on the EEOC’s Pay Data Collection Completed in 2020. The study, titled Evaluation of Compensation Data Collected Through the EEO-1 Form, is a dense read at over 275 pages.
The…
OFCCP Contractor Portal Update: Agency Launches Bulk Upload Option
Posted in Agency Notice, Compliance Update
The June 30, 2022 deadline is quickly approaching for covered supply and service federal contractors and subcontractors to certify in the Contractor Portal they have developed and maintained AAPs. This week, OFCCP added an option allowing bulk upload and modification of establishments and functional affirmative action plan (FAAP) business units.
Notably, OFCCP limits this functionality…
OFCCP To Revisit Possibility of Using EEO-1 Pay Data for Enforcement
By Laura A. Mitchell on
Posted in Agency Notice
In November 2019, OFCCP announced it would not “request, accept or use” Component 2 pay data submitted by employers as part of EEOC’s previous pay data collection reporting obligation. OFCCP’s notice followed on the heels of EEOC’s notice that it would not be seeking renewal of approval to collect pay data beyond 2017 and 2018.…
EEO-1 Data Collection Portal Open: Batch File Upload Not Available Until May 26
By Laura A. Mitchell on
Posted in Agency Notice, Compliance Update
As anticipated EEOC has announced the opening of the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 data collection portal today. The deadline for submission will be Monday, July 19, 2021. As a reminder, employers are to submit only Component 1 (race and gender) data for these two years. There is currently no obligation for pay data (Component…
EEO-1 Reporting Deadline Expected To Now Be July 2021
In an announcement (EEOCdata.org) that flew under the radar and has, yet, to appear on the EEO-1 reporting webpage, or EEOC’s home page, EEOC now says the filing deadline will be in sometime in July. When in July? EEOC had not said:
The EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open at the end of
…
OFCCP to Close Contractor Assistance Portal
By Laura A. Mitchell on
Posted in Agency Notice
In an e-mail sent out to registered stakeholders OFCCP announced in an effort to “improve efficiency and better integrate compliance assistance efforts,” it is discontinuing the Agency’s Contractor Assistance Portal as of March 1, 2021.
The notice emphasized OFCCP
remains committed to quality compliance assistance
and notes it will strengthen its efforts through improvements to…
OFCCP Issues Contractor “Certificates of Merit” and Publishes Section 503 Focused Reviews Annual Report
Posted in Agency Notice
As we are preparing for a change in leadership at OFCCP, the Agency has published its first Section 503 Focused Reviews Annual Report and issued Section 503 Certificates of Merit. As many are aware, OFCCP Director Craig Leen is passionate about fighting for and protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities and, as such,…
EEOC Launches Searchable Database of Aggregated EEO-1 Data
By Laura A. Mitchell on
Posted in Agency Notice
In December 2018, the EEOC created the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA). Since its inception, the OEDA has been working on modernizing EEO data availability. On December 2, 2020 EEOC launched EEOC Explore, which aggregates publicly available EEO-1 data (currently limited to EEO-1 data sets from 2017 and 2018) into a…