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In today’s post as part of our “Countdown to March 24th Effective Date: Are you Ready to Flip the Switch?” series, we’ll be discussing the new obligation under the veterans and disability regulations that employers must now “assess the effectiveness” of their good faith outreach programs.
Back in 2011 when OFCCP first released…
As the next installment of our “Countdown to March 24th Effective Date: Are you Ready to Flip the Switch?” let’s take a look at what employers need to be telling Job Seekers after March 24th . . .
A number of the new veteran and disability obligations effective March 24, 2014 involve notifying…
Today will mark the first in a series of posts over the next week counting down to the March 24th effective date for OFCCP’s new Veteran and Disability regulations. During the next week we will seek to provide you with practical pointers and tips as you work through your checklists and prepare to “flip…
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…
On September 24, 2013, OFCCP published the final rules for veterans and individuals with disabilities. The new rules require that employers make substantial changes to their hiring processes and systems within 120 days, or by March 24, 2014. For more information on these changes, click here. However, because it is unclear how the…
Under OFCCP’s new 503 regulations covering individuals with disabilities, employers must use the prescribed form to be provided by OFCCP to solicit disability status of applicants and employees. OFCCP has sent to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. It can be found here. OMB must approve this form before OFCCP can…
On August 27, 2013, OFCCP released new regulations updating Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) that impose significant additional obligations on employers. The final regulations were published today in the Federal Register (to review, click here: Section 503 and VEVRAA) and become…
As we’ve mentioned in our previous posts about the new Veterans and Disability Regulations we will be providing information and insights about the new regulations in various forms over the upcoming weeks, including through a series of three complimentary webcasts.
The first of these webcasts, to be released September 9th, will provide an overview of…
As we have mentioned previously, OFCCP has not been quite about its stated agenda to assist veterans and individuals with disabilities. The Agency has proposed regulations addressing employer obligations for both groups that, if published, will be “game changes” for the contractor community.
Even without the finalization of these regulations, OFCCP is vigorously enforcing…
