The OFFCP opened the 2023 AAP certification requirement in their Contractor Portal on March 31, 2023. The Contractor Portal is the agency’s platform where contractors and subcontractors must annually certify whether they are meeting their requirement to develop and maintain affirmative action programs (AAPs). The deadline for certifying compliance is June 29, 2023. For more [...]
On March 30th, Jenny Yang announced the conclusion of her tenure at the DOL as the Director of the OFCCP. She is leaving to take a position on the White House Domestic Policy Council as deputy assistant to the president for racial justice and equity. During her time as director of OFCCP, the agency launched [...]
The Biden administration is proposing several changes in the way race and ethnicity are reported in the census and government surveys. The first is to collect race and ethnicity with a single question, putting “Hispanic or Latino” along with the other races, rather than the separate two question format in place currently. Supporters claim that [...]
The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) recently updated their FAQs page to state that the CRD will begin accepting “enforcement deferral requests” from employers for their Labor Contractor Employee Reports. If granted, employers have until July 10th, 2023, to submit the report. Previously, we reported California requires employers with 100 or more employees to submit [...]
On April 17th, 2023, the OFCCP released the EEO-1 data of nearly 20,000 federal contractors. As we previously reported, in August 2022, the OFCCP notified federal contractors of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for federal contractors’ EEO-1 reports. The request was for consolidated Type 2 (company-wide) EEO-1 data from years 2016-2020 for all [...]