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President Obama’s OFCCP 2015 fiscal year budget proposal remains true to OFCCP’s recent increased enforcement objectives – including the Agency’s increased focused on pay equity enforcement.
The budget seeks an additional $1.1 million over the 2014 budget to be spread across the following areas:
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As the effective date for OFCCP’s new veterans and disability regulations nears, the Agency continues to present webinars, publish FAQs and provide other guidance in the hopes of clarifying what remains a less than a clear picture of these new obligations. Despite the OFCCP’s laudable attempts, employers are still searching for answers as March 24…
On the final day of January, OFCCP mailed over 2,100 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters to more than 830 employers across the country. The “CSALs,” which provide employers with advance notice of locations slated for audits, started arriving in mailboxes this week. And OFCCP began initiating actual audits immediately. During these audits, OFCCP will:
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As we alerted earlier this week, OFCCP has released a wave of advance audit notice letters notifying facilities of their selection for impending review by the Agency. In an uncommon step, OFCCP has released some details of its Fiscal Year 2014 audit Scheduling List, selection process. Details include the following:
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As an update to our post last week – OFCCP has mailed out a wave of more than 2,100 advance audit notification letters to over 850 employers. In a new twist, Jackson Lewis has learned OFCCP will “cap” the number of audits for any single employer at 35.
The letters are dated January 31, 2014…
As the contractor community prepares to implement some of the largest regulatory changes in the past two decades, Jackson Lewis has learned OFCCP plans to soon send out advance notification letters (CSALs) notifying employers of their selection for upcoming compliance reviews. These letters do not initiate audits, but given employers notification that there establishment…
Under OFCCP’s new 503 regulations covering individuals with disabilities, employers are required to use a form prescribed by OFCCP to solicit disability status of applicants and employees. After receiving questions and input from contractors on an initial draft form, OFCCP has modified, and received approval of a final version of the form.
In response…
On Monday, OFCCP Director Pat Shiu announced the selection of Janette Wipper to fill the Pacific Region Regional Director position which had been vacant for more than a year since the retirement of Bill Smitherman in December 2012.
This is the second consecutive Regional Director position OFCCP has filled from outside the Agency. Ms. Wipper’s…
Continuing its focus on applicant-to-hire-adverse impact, OFCCP announced today a settlement with a New Jersey contractor involving allegations of hiring discrimination against women, African Americans and Asian Americans.
In its press release, OFCCP indicated the contractor aggreed to pay close to $325,000 to a class of nearly 230 applicants who applied for warehouse positions…
On December 17, OFCCP held the first of what will be several public webinars in an effort to provide assistance to the contractor community with implementation of the new Veterans and Section 503 regulations. The series of trainings, entitled “Moving Toward Compliance: Training Webinars on SEction 503 and VEVRAA” will cover topics such as developing…
