The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has finalized its updated Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing, which greatly expands the initial response burden on federal contractors selected for an audit. The updated letter applies to all supply and service compliance evaluations starting August 24, 2023. Below are some of the major changes. The OFCCP [...]
The 2023 filing cycle for the VETS-4212 report opened August 1, and is due September 30. The EEOC is currently completing a mandatory, three-year renewal of the EEO-1 Component 1 data collection by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). Accordingly, the EEOC has updated the tentative opening of [...]
The Senate confirmed Kalpana Kotagal as an EEOC Commissioner on July 14, 2023. The EEOC is a bipartisan Commission comprised of five presidentially appointed members, including the Chair, Vice Chair, and three Commissioners. Kotagal is now the third Democrat on the commission, giving Democrats the majority for the first time in the Biden Administration. With [...]
On August 4, 2023, the OFCCP published a final rule titled “Pre-enforcement Notice and Conciliation Procedures.” The final rule clarifies the OFCCP’s use of the Predetermination Notices (PDN) and Notice of Violation (NOV) as pre-enforcement procedures. A PDN is a letter in which the OFCCP notifies the contractor of its preliminary finding that the contractor [...]
The OFCCP recently revised the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form to update the preferred language for disabilities and to include additional examples of disabilities. Contractors must implement the new form by July 25th, 2023. The new form can be found here.