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We can’t say it enough – the OFCCP is using aggressive tactics to impress upon contractors that non-compliance with the agency is not an option. If you want to do business with the Government, you’ve got to “play ball” with OFFCP.
Just days before President Obama was officially sworn into a second term, OFCCP filed…
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About The OFCCP Institute
The OFCCP Institute was formed to assist the contractor community in responding to rapidly…
Changes are afoot at OFCCP. We have learned that long-time OFCCP Pacific Region Director Bill Smitherman will retire at the end of the month. Director Smitherman held the Pacific Regional Director position for many years, initially as Acting Director before assuming the position on a full-time basis several years ago. His replacement has not been…
Jackson Lewis Partners Mickey Silberman and Matthew Camardella recently delivered a webcast regarding anticipated Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs initiatives under a second-term Obama Administration. Given the OFCCP’s latest wave of advance notification letters these insights into the Agency’s regulatory agenda and what you can do to prepare are all the more instructive.
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We just spoke with OFCCP’s National Office and confirmed 1,762 CSALs were sent out last week to individual establishments. There were no Functional Affirmative Action Plan (FAAP) notifications and no Corporate Management Compliance Evaluations (CMCEs) notifications sent in this latest round of CSALs.
OFCCP confirmed that this is the first round of CSALs for OFCCP’s…
With great fanfare OFCCP announced in August at the ILG National conference in Hawaii that it would be forgoing the mailing of advance notification letters to employers in exchange for publishing the list of likely compliance reviews via the Agency’s website. Despite its previous announcement of a move to the web-based notification system, last week…
Everyone is talking about pay discrimination these days. Even the Presidential candidates (and their running mates) are focused on the persistent pay gap and their plans for addressing pay in the workplace over the next four years. Regardless of which party wins the election, it is clear compensation will remain in the spot light.
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Despite OFCCP’s recent focus on compensation discrimination, pre-employment testing and good faith efforts for veterans and disabled individuals, the agency continues to investigate and enforce standard hiring discrimination cases. Two recent OFCCP settlement agreements resolving allegations of hiring discrimination, while not the largest of OFCCP settlements, reinforce OFCCP’s continued commitment to investigate applicant-to-hire adverse impact.
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On September 4, 2012, EEOC released its draft four-year Strategic Enforcement Plan.
EEOC’s four-year strategic enforcement plan provides a window into the emerging priorities for the Commission. The Agency’s announced its number one enforcement priority is identifying and remedying systemic hiring discrimination. This is a game changer. Instead of limiting investigations of single-charging party…
Yesterday in a live, remote broadcast from Washington, D.C., Tom Dowd, OFCCP Director of Program Operations, informed the attendees at the National ILG conference that OFCCP will continue to issue corporate scheduling announcement letter notifications (CSALs). That’s good news. But he didn’t stop there.
In a significant change, Director Dowd announced the CSALs will no…
