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This year the Colorado ILG has the pleasure of hosting the 2014 SWARM Regional ILG Conference. The conference will take place April 29 – May 2 in Denver, Colorado. Early bird registration for the conference ends January 31.st
Pam Coukos and other ILG and EEOC speakers will be featured presenters at the conference…
March 24, 2014 – the effective date for OFCCP’s new veterans and disability regulations – is fast approaching. The Agency continues to present webinars, publish FAQs and provide other guidance in the hopes of clarifying what remains a less than a clear picture of these new obligations. Despite the OFCCP’s laudable attempts, employers are still…
On December 17, OFCCP held the first of what will be several public webinars in an effort to provide assistance to the contractor community with implementation of the new Veterans and Section 503 regulations. The series of trainings, entitled “Moving Toward Compliance: Training Webinars on SEction 503 and VEVRAA” will cover topics such as developing…
On September 24, 2013, OFCCP published the final rules for veterans and individuals with disabilities. The new rules require that employers make substantial changes to their hiring processes and systems within 120 days, or by March 24, 2014. For more information on these changes, click here. However, because it is unclear how the…
The filing deadline for VETS-100 and VETS-100A reporting has been extended until October 31, 2013 for all employers. This is likely due to technical issues — the website was revamped, filing was opened up late again this year, and logins/passwords were reset for employers. The extension notice only appears on the first page of the…
In just the past few months, OFCCP published Directive 307 – radically changing the way the Agency conducts pay investigations – issued the revised Federal Contractor Compliance Manual (FCCM), and announced the new Veterans and Disability regulations. All told, more than 1,000 pages of new/revised/updated rules, regulations and enforcement methods. Let’s give OFCCP points for…
OFCCP recently entered into two hiring settlements where the Agency alleged systemic discrimination against male applicants. These settlements reminds us OFCCP is not just focused on statistical trends against minorities and females, but that the Agency is also running adverse impact analyses against whites and males and will “go where the numbers take them.”
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Over the past few weeks, we provided our initial assessment of the OFCCP’s new disability and veterans regulations. We also held our first in a series of complimentary webinars to help the employer community better understand their new obligations and the implications for your budgets, staffing and IT systems. More to come soon in the…
As we’ve mentioned in our previous posts about the new Veterans and Disability Regulations we will be providing information and insights about the new regulations in various forms over the upcoming weeks, including through a series of three complimentary webcasts.
The first of these webcasts, to be released September 9th, will provide an overview of…
OFCCP has at long-last released the updated Federal Contract Compliance Manual (“FCCM”), which guides Compliance Officers during compliance evaluations. OFCCP says the 500+ page manual “provides procedural and technical guidance on compliance issues based on current agency procedures and processes and improves consistency across the agency´s regional and field offices.” This peek behind the curtain…
