The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finally approved the OFCCP audit Scheduling Letters, including those for Compliance Checks and Focused Reviews. The OMB made several revisions to the OFCCP’s proposed changes for the letters submitted back in June 2019. This resulted in the newly approved audit scheduling letters being largely unchanged from those [...]
The VEVRAA Benchmark for hiring protected veterans, set by the OFCCP for federal government contractors, has dropped for the sixth year in a row. The OFCCP has lowered the benchmark from 5.9% to 5.7% which applies to affirmative action plan years starting on or after March 31, 2020. The benchmark is based on the national [...]
In an effort to improve its transparency to federal contractors, the OFCCP recently released their methodology explaining how they selected federal contractors to be audited in FY2018. The methodology is described in this two page document. The OFCCP stated that they have no legal obligation to publish their methodology each time the methodology is revised.
The EEO-1 Joint Reporting Committee received a large number of requests for extensions to file the 2017 EEO-1 Report, so the deadline has been extended to Friday June 1, 2018. Please go to the EEO-1 website for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/.
The OFCCP recently sent surveys using SurveyMonkey to contractors that completed an OFCCP compliance review between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2017. The OFCCP is seeking information about contractors’ experience during audits in order to improve “communication, transparency, and timeliness during our compliance evaluations.” The OFCCP reassured contractors that their responses will be anonymous [...]