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As an update to our recent post on the growing trend of veteran hiring preferences, Indiana and Georgia are now on the list of states with voluntary veteran preference programs. The addition of these two states increases the number of states with veteran preference to 19.
Stay tuned for further updates.
In an update to our post more than a year ago about the National Association of Manufactures’ legal challenge to the posting requirements under Executive Order 13496, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. has rejected NAM’s constitutional challenge to President Barack Obama’s 2010 Executive Order requiring certain federal contractors to post a “Notification…
This past March, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez issued a News Release announcing the overall unemployment rate for all veterans has dropped for the fourth consecutive year – this is great news.
In an effort to assist in the employment of veterans, covered federal contractors are required to set a protected veteran hiring benchmark as part…
Utilizing 2014 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) year-end data, OFCCP has revised the VEVRAA hiring benchmark to 7 percent – down from the current 7.2% mark. Pursuant to the revised veteran regulations, covered contractors and subcontracts must either adopt the national benchmark, or set their own using the proscribed five-factor method, for each establishment.…
April 14, 2015 has been identified as National Equal Pay Day – the day which symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.
President Obama has made fighting pay discrimination a top priority of his Civil Rights Agenda. He has recently taken several executive actions…
Since introducing its new scheduling letter in late 2014, OFCCP has made many important changes to enforcement in audits. From ramped up enforcement of the Agency’s VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations to new and very different ways to investigate pay systems for discrimination, the Agency has fundamentally changed how it conducts compliance reviews. And it’s…
As a follow up to last week’s training on implementation of the new sexual orientation and gender identity non discrimination regulations, OFCCP will be holding an upcoming webinar to discuss how the Agency will be processing complaints under Executive Order 13672.
The public webinar will be held on April 8, 2015 ,and again April 9…
This week OFCCP hosted Webinars on federal contractor obligations with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity under Executive Order 13672.
During the training OFCCP reiterated the following requirements:
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OFCCP published its long-awaited Sex Discrimination Rules amidst a lot of other activity vying for our attention. Maybe you’ve not had the chance to review them (yet). But you’ve still got time. The public comment period is open until Tuesday March 31, 2015 – let your voice be heard.
Comments can be filed via fax…
OFCCP announced today a date change for its upcoming sexual orientation and gender identity compliance training.
The webinar previously scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, 2015 will now be held Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 2:00 Eastern. The same Webinar will be presented again on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.
If you have already…
