The Department of Labor has announced updates to the Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Law poster, required to be posted (in 11×17 format) by federal contractors and subcontractors pursuant to Executive Order 13496. The changes include: a new telephone number for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the agency responsible for enforcing the NLRA – 1-844-762-NLRB … Continue Reading
It’s time to start checking the mail. As a sure indication of the Agency’s intention to soon start initiating audits from the FY2019 CSAL, OFCCP has published a new Compliance Check website. OFCCP has published similar guidance for the Section 503 Focused Reviews. In furtherance of its commitment to provide more technical assistance, OFCCP created with … Continue Reading
This, our third and final blog in a series discussing the proposed changes to OFCCP’s scheduling letters, takes a look at the Agency’s proposed changes to the establishment review letter and itemized listing. With the appearance of Focused Reviews and Compliance Checks on this year’s CSAL, contractors have been abuzz about their obligations associated with … Continue Reading
Last Week, OFCCP Director Craig Leen and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (“ODEP”) Jennifer Sheehy, joined with the National Industry Liaison Group to discuss disability and inclusion. With 500 Section 503 Focused Reviews on OFCCP’s March 2019 CSAL list, the timing was perfect to hear directly from the OFCCP Director … Continue Reading
Today, OFCCP issued its first Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) of 2019, providing advance notification of compliance reviews, including CMCEs, Section 503 Focused Reviews and compliance checks. True to expectations, the Agency vastly increased the number of locations subject to review to more than 3,500. OFCCP continued its new policy of transparency by publishing the list of … Continue Reading
In August 2018, OFCCP released Directive 2018-04 announcing the Agency’s implementation of Section 503 Focused Reviews. Long a priority Director Craig Leen, the Agency is hopeful the reviews will improve compliance with the regulations and promulgate EEO for Individuals with Disabilities. OFCCP has indicated it will start scheduling the Section 503 Focused Reviews with the … Continue Reading
OFCCP announced Friday that it will post a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL)(formerly known as Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter or Courtesy Scheduling Announcement Letter) in “mid-to-late March.” As previously announced, OFCCP now makes the CSAL publically available and, for the first time, OFCCP will send no letters to federal contractors – thus the changed reference to … Continue Reading
It appears OFCCP has made some updates to its latest Corporate Scheduling Announcement List release. When accessing the current publicly available list through OFCCP’s website, the resulting file now displays a header which indicates the file contains “addresses updated as of September 24, 2018.” Upon close review and comparison with the original list posted last week, it … Continue Reading
When the Agency mailed the most recent round of CSALs in February 2018, it reported it would wait until March 19, 2018 to start issuing Scheduling Letters. True to their word, we have learned that Scheduling Letters have started arriving, at least in some areas of the country. As a reminder, OFCCP sends scheduling letters via certified mail to the … Continue Reading
OFCCP’s website has been updated to reflect that the Agency placed 1,000 Corporate Scheduling Announcement letters in the mail on February 1, 2018. We have seen one of the letters – it is dated January 31, 2018, signed by new OFCCP Director Ondray Harris, and addressed generically to the “Human Resources Director.” OFCCP last issued … Continue Reading
We have learned that OFCCP has sent out a new wave of advance audit notification letters giving employers a “heads up” about upcoming compliance reviews. It appears the letters were sent yesterday. Like the last round of CSALs, OFCCP sent the letters to the local facility to be audited with no additional notification to Corporate. The … Continue Reading
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 … Continue Reading
