As its first official act of the 2025 Fiscal Year, OFCCP announced the release of a revised Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing for Construction contractors. The release follows the Agency’s February 2024 publication of proposed changes to the letter and despite its release on October 2, 2024 will apply to any construction audits initiated
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Breaking News: OFCCP Publishes Proposed Modifications to Audit Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing
On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, OFCCP has published proposed modifications to the Scheduling Letter and accompanying Itemized Listing. The deadline to submit comments on the proposed changes is January 20, 2023.
As a reminder, while OFCCP gives advance notice of audits through the CSAL, a contractor’s audit does not commence until…
OFCCP Scales Back its Proposed Changes to the Establishment Review Scheduling Letter Itemized Listing
This is the second blog post in our series discussing the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) request for further comments on OFCCP’s proposed scheduling letters and itemized listings, which were first published in April.
In our April post on the proposed changes to the then newly proposed establishment review scheduling letter and itemized listing,…
OFCCP Launches Section 503 Focused Review Informational Webpage
In August 2018, OFCCP released Directive 2018-04 announcing the Agency’s implementation of Section 503 Focused Reviews. Long a priority Director Craig Leen, the Agency is hopeful the reviews will improve compliance with the regulations and promulgate EEO for Individuals with Disabilities. OFCCP has indicated it will start scheduling the Section 503 Focused Reviews with…
OFCCP’s Scheduling Letter Renewed for Three Years
On the eve of the Fourth of July holiday, and just in time for the start of the final quarter of the Agency’s fiscal year, OFCCP announced it had received approval of its revised Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing. The revised letter, which, when received by a contractor initiates an Agency compliance review, was…
Pay Transparency Obligations Are Now Effective
Happy New Year! For the government contractor community 2016 seems to be picking up right where 2015 left off – with implementation of new compliance obligations.
Eleven days into the new year and federal contractors are now subject to Executive Order 13665 – the Pay Transparency Executive Order. While January 11, 2016 is officially…
It’s Been Six Months Since OFCCP Issued its Revised Scheduling Letter – What Have We Learned?
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…
Complimentary Webinar on OFCCP’s New Audit Scheduling Letter
In October 2014, OFCCP issued a new scheduling letter that significantly impacts what employers must submit during an audit. As we suspected, OFCCP’s enforcement under the new letter is a “game changer” for federal contractors.
Join us on March 24, 2015 from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern as we share our experiences in…
VEVRAA and Section 503 Six Month Update Obligations Under the New Scheduling Letter
In FAQs released yesterday, OFCCP addressed requirements under the new Scheduling Letter for contractors to provide updated data collected pursuant to the revised Veterans and Individuals with Disability regulations if the contractor is more than six months into its current AAP plan year upon receipt of a Scheduling Letter.
OFCCP has previously indicated a…
OFCCP Posts FAQs Addressing Submission of Compensation Data in Compliance Reviews
One of the biggest changes to OFCCP’s recently revised scheduling letter is the requirement that employers must now submit employee-level pay data at the outset of an OFCCP audit. As the Agency puts 2,500 establishments on notice of upcoming audits, and in response to contractor questions and requests for guidance on the new scheduling letter,…