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Watch out – OFCCP’s interested in your pay data – all of your pay data. OFCCP, particularly in corporate audits, is digging into compensation other than base pay.  Even if there are no flags or other statistical indicators in the data submitted to the agency (either in Item 11 data or 14-factor data in OFCCP…

Almost a year after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its enforcement guidance on employers’ use of arrest and conviction records when making employment decisions, OFFCP has issued Directive 306, instructing federal contractors to strongly consider federal anti-discrimination laws before excluding applicants from employment  based on criminal history records.

What does this mean…

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…

After two rounds of public comments, OFCCP implemented Directive No. 305 earlier this month with little fanfare.  Directive 305 provides guidance to employers who desire to create affirmative action plans based on functional business units rather than by individual establishment – also known as FAAPs.  Implementation of Direction 305 rescinds the previous FAAP directive, in…

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…

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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