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Furthering the Agency’s commitment to providing contractors with ongoing Technical Compliance Assistance, OFCCP has released a Guide to assist construction contractors navigate compliance with their equal employment opportunity obligations. The Construction TAG has been added to OFCCP’s ever-expanding technical assistance landing page.
OFCCP drafted the 157-page guide as a
self-assessment tool to review the
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Following the most recent Court Order, EEOC has provided the court with a current update as to its compliance with the Court’s Order that it continue to keep the EEO-1 Component 2 pay data reporting portal open. The Court has ordered the portal remain open until at least January 31, 2020 to allow additional…
Despite its request to close the pay data reporting portal, Judge Chutkan has ordered EEOC to continue to keep the EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data Reporting Portal open to allow more filers to submit their pay data. The Order states, despite the acknowledged expense, that EEOC
must continue to take all steps necessary to complete
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In its most recent required status report to the court, filed September 27, 2019, the EEOC reports:
[s]o long as the Court’s order is in effect stating that the collection will not be complete until it reaches what the Court has determined to be the target response rate, the EEOC will continue to accept Component
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Though we may be in the height of summer, there is no slowing down for OFCCP. Following last week’s ILG National Conference, OFCCP has continued to release additional guidance and assistance for contractors. Most recently, OFCCP has introduced its Ombudsperson and unveiled a Contractor Assistance Portal.
In September 2018, OFCCP first announced…
Under the leadership of Craig Leen, OFCCP has made a renewed commitment to providing technical assistance to contractors. True to their word, and in furtherance of its Town Hall Action Plan, OFCCP announced on Friday the release of a number of new technical assistance guides (TAGs), with more on the way. Interestingly, Director…
As required, EEOC has filed its scheduled update with the Court regarding the progress of collection of the new EEO-1 Component 2 pay data report.
The report is brief, but notes EEOC is still on schedule to allow a data file upload function and validation process as an additional method of reporting no later than…
In just its second Opinion Letter, OFCCP has [somewhat] tackled the issue of Pay Analysis Groups (PAGs). Issued two months after the inaugural Opinion Letter which addressed the issue of Pell Grants, Director Craig Leen’s second letter touches upon the more controversial topic of compensation.
In the July 22, 2019 letter, Director Leen answers…
On schedule, EEOC has opened the portal for filing 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 Component 2 reports.
Here’s the catch, however: According to updates on the Component 2 website, the reporting portal is “operational and available for viewing by the public,” however, as it previously advised, batch reporting will not be available until mid-August.…
