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Its about one month since OFCCP’s new rules covering Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities became effective and the agency is starting to vigorously enforce the new rules.  Combined that with OFCCP’s increasingly aggressive enforcement of Directive 307 – which sets forth the agency’s new approach to investigating employers’ compensation systems for systemic discrimination – and…

In an effort to provide continuing guidance to the contratcor community as the effective date for the revised VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations quickly approaches,OFCCP has released additional FAQs addressing questions about required Purchase Order Language as well as the obligaiton to “conspiculously store” the notice of applicant and employee rights with an electronic…

March 24, 2014 – the effective date for OFCCP’s new veterans and disability regulations – is fast approaching.   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…

On August 27, 2013, OFCCP released new regulations updating Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) that impose significant additional obligations on employers.  The final regulations were published today in the Federal Register (to review, click here: Section 503 and VEVRAA) and become…

In just the past few months, OFCCP published Directive 307 – radically changing the way the Agency conducts pay investigations – issued the revised Federal Contractor Compliance Manual (FCCM), and announced the new Veterans and Disability regulations.  All told, more than 1,000 pages of new/revised/updated rules, regulations and enforcement methods.  Let’s give OFCCP points for…

Over the past few weeks, we provided our initial assessment of the OFCCP’s new disability and veterans regulations.  We also held our first in a series of complimentary webinars to help the employer community better understand their new obligations and the implications for your budgets, staffing and IT systems.  More to come soon in the…

As we’ve mentioned in our previous posts about the new Veterans and Disability Regulations we will be providing information and insights about the new regulations in various forms over the upcoming weeks, including through a series of three complimentary webcasts.

The first of these webcasts, to be released September 9th, will provide an overview of…