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A recent DOL newsletter announced new options for contacting OFCCP. The following links can be used to submit questions and check on the status of a pending question or complaint: Submit a Question to OFCCP and Check Question or Complaint Status.
The links appear on the OFCCP Website under the “Workforce Corner” heading on…
Earlier today House Speaker John Boehner announced his intent to file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the President’s recent Executive Order actions. As we have been discussing, President Obama has recently issued numerous Executive Orders affecting the employment practices of Federal Contractors.
The details of the Speaker’s proposed lawsuit are not yet available but…
Continuing to pursue his pay equity agenda, President Obama took the steering wheel by issuing two Executive Orders and a game-changing Presidential Memo in February and April. Each of these actions requires the Department of Labor (DOL) to issue proposed regulations to implement the actions and flesh-out the many details not addressed in the Executive…
As a follow up to Secretary Perez’s letter to Congress proposing a five year moratorium on OFCCP compliance reviews of TRICARE employers, OFCCP issued a directive detailing the Agency’s position.
In addition to confirming OFCCP’s commitment to cease auditing TRICARE employers for the next five years, the directive sets out OFCCP’s plan to
“engage in
…
On the last morning of the 2014 SWARM Regional Conference, attendees were treated to a special session with OFCCP officials and practitioners discussing OFCCP’s approach to pay enforcement. On the panel from OFCCP were SWARM Regional Director Melissa Speer and Deputy Director of Operations, Marika Litras who graciously and skillfully filled in for an…
We’re midway through the second day of the SWARM ILG Regional Conference and it’s been a great day so far – with a number of top-notch speakers and a ton of OFCCP and affirmative action information being exchanged.
During lunch conference attendees had the pleasure of hearing from Robert Beal and Francesca Cheroutes from the…
On April 29, 2014, OFCCP held the first of what we expect will be several meetings with interested parties regarding impending regulations implementing President Obama’s latest efforts to combat pay discrimination. As we previously shared, on April 8, 2014, President Obama signed Executive Order 13665 prohibiting government contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against individuals for…
Its getting harder to be a Federal contractor. On February 12, President Obama signed an executive order bumping the minimum wage for at least some federal contractor employees to $10.10 an hour, raising many questions which we discussed here. But the President didn’t stop there. Based on his action today, two new obligations will…
Tomorrow is National Equal Pay Day: the day which symbolizes how far into 2014 women must work to earn what men earned in 2013. Pursuing his equal pay agenda and his recent penchant for executive orders, President Obama will reportedly sign two Executive Orders tomorrow with implications for federal government contractors. One order is…
With March 24th come and gone many employers are still working on implementing the required elements of OFCCP’s new veteran and disability regulations and making preparations for rolling-out Subpart C compliance measures.
As of March 24th, contractors who are party to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)
“shall notify union officials and/or employee representatives to inform
…
