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In the fourth, and final, installment of its “Moving Toward Compliance” series, OFCCP today provided guidance to contractors on the new disability utilization goals and veteran hiring benchmarks. In addition to providing insight on the regulations the webinar included presentations from two disability and veteran organizations.
The Agency spent considerable time walking through examples…
President Obama’s OFCCP 2015 fiscal year budget proposal remains true to OFCCP’s recent increased enforcement objectives – including the Agency’s increased focused on pay equity enforcement.
The budget seeks an additional $1.1 million over the 2014 budget to be spread across the following areas:
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In an effort to provide continuing guidance to the contratcor community as the effective date for the revised VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations quickly approaches,OFCCP has released additional FAQs addressing questions about required Purchase Order Language as well as the obligaiton to “conspiculously store” the notice of applicant and employee rights with an electronic…
As he promised in his State of the Union address, President Obama has signed an Executive Order increasing the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. The Order is effective for new or modified contracts entered into after January 1, 2015.
As part of the Order, the President tasked…
On the final day of January, OFCCP mailed over 2,100 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters to more than 830 employers across the country. The “CSALs,” which provide employers with advance notice of locations slated for audits, started arriving in mailboxes this week. And OFCCP began initiating actual audits immediately. During these audits, OFCCP will:
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As we alerted earlier this week, OFCCP has released a wave of advance audit notice letters notifying facilities of their selection for impending review by the Agency. In an uncommon step, OFCCP has released some details of its Fiscal Year 2014 audit Scheduling List, selection process. Details include the following:
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As an update to our post last week – OFCCP has mailed out a wave of more than 2,100 advance audit notification letters to over 850 employers. In a new twist, Jackson Lewis has learned OFCCP will “cap” the number of audits for any single employer at 35.
The letters are dated January 31, 2014…
As the contractor community prepares to implement some of the largest regulatory changes in the past two decades, Jackson Lewis has learned OFCCP plans to soon send out advance notification letters (CSALs) notifying employers of their selection for upcoming compliance reviews. These letters do not initiate audits, but given employers notification that there establishment…
Under OFCCP’s new 503 regulations covering individuals with disabilities, employers are required to use a form prescribed by OFCCP to solicit disability status of applicants and employees. After receiving questions and input from contractors on an initial draft form, OFCCP has modified, and received approval of a final version of the form.
In response…
Continuing its focus on applicant-to-hire-adverse impact, OFCCP announced today a settlement with a New Jersey contractor involving allegations of hiring discrimination against women, African Americans and Asian Americans.
In its press release, OFCCP indicated the contractor aggreed to pay close to $325,000 to a class of nearly 230 applicants who applied for warehouse positions…
