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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…

With March 24th come and gone many employers are still working on implementing the required elements of OFCCP’s new veteran and disability regulations and making preparations for rolling-out Subpart C compliance measures.

As of March 24th, contractors who are party to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA)

 “shall notify union officials and/or employee representatives to inform

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With the passing of the March 24th effective date for OFCCP’s new veteran and disability regulations, we will turn our focus to the Sub-Part C obligations which must be implemented with the next regular update to your affirmative action plan.  Don’t worry though, we will also continue to blog about enforcement and implementation of…

In addition to releasing the veteran benchmark database, OFCCP has also launched a new outreach and recruitment database for use by contractors in connection with implementation of the new veteran and disability regulations.

The OFCCP’s Disability and Veterans Community Resources Directory can be found on the OFCCP Web site athttp://www.dol-esa.gov/errd/index.html.  This new…

In prepartion for the March 24th effective date of the Agency’s new veteran regulations, OFCCP announced today release of the veteran benchmark database to be used by contractors when establishing the newly required veteran hiring benchmark.

You can access the VEVRAA Benchmark Database through OFCCP’s Web site at http://www.dol-esa.gov/errd/VEVRAA.jsp.

As the last few days before the new veteran and disability regulations go into effect, we wanted to take moment in our  Countdown to March 24th Effective Date: Are you Ready to Flip the Switch series to help you clarify (and check-off) the obligations with respect to the various EEO notices, policy and posting requirements…

In today’s post as part of our “Countdown to March 24th Effective Date: Are you Ready to Flip the Switch?” series, we’ll be discussing the new obligation under the veterans and disability regulations that employers must now “assess the effectiveness” of their good faith outreach programs.

Back in 2011 when OFCCP first released…

Today’s installment of our “Countdown to March 24th Effective Date: Are you Ready to Flip the Switch?” series focuses on the enhanced obligations involving posting positions with state employment services.

Under the current VEVRAA regulations employers are required to list appropriate job openings with the state Employment Service Delivery System (ESDS) in the state where…

In the fourth, and final, installment of its “Moving Toward Compliance” series, OFCCP today provided guidance to contractors on the new disability utilization goals and veteran hiring benchmarks. In addition to providing insight on the regulations the webinar included presentations from two disability and veteran organizations.

The Agency spent considerable time walking through examples…