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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
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As we’ve been sharing, OFCCP is working to develop a pay data collection tool for federal contractors in response to President Obama’s recent Presidential Memorandum on Pay Discrimination. We have learned OFCCP sent its proposed regulation for this tool to OMB yesterday for review; it is not yet, however, available to the public. Once we …
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…
As we mentioned earlier, at the SWARM Regional Conference this afternoon, Regional Director Melissa Speer and Deputy Director Aida Collins, answered questions from conference attendees about implementation of the new veteran and disability regulations.
During the Q&A session, Melissa and Aida graciously took questions from the crowd about real-world implementation scenarios. For those questions…
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…
Good Morning Folks! We just listened to Melissa Speer, OFCCP SWARM Regional Director, open up the 2014 SWARM Regional Conference from the beautiful Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado. As you can imagine Melissa had a lot of new OFCCP developments to chat about, including the recent Presidential executive actions surrounding pay discrimination as well…
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…
In celebration of the three year anniversary of Joining Forces, an initiative connecting military families with the resources available to them, and on the heels of the effective date of OFCCP’s new veteran regulations, the White House released today a new employment tool for veterans and employers. The Veterans Employment Center is an…
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…
The saga of OFCCP v. Florida Hospital of Orlando is synonymous with OFCCP’s ongoing battle to establish jurisdiction over healthcare providers. In late-2008, OFCCP brought an enforcement action after the Hospital objected to OFCCP’s jurisdiction, claiming it was not a covered “subcontractor.” An administrative law judge in October 2012 found the Hospital to be a…
