On August 18, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a revised Directive, titled “Advancing Pay Equity Through Compensation Analysis.” The purpose is to clarify its Directive issued in March 2022, titled “Pay Equity Audits.” OFCCP’s Director, Jenny Yang, provided more commentary about this Directive in a recent blog post. The OFCCP [...]
The OFCCP’s Contractor Portal remains open beyond the original June 30, 2022 deadline, the OFCCP announced on July 28. The Contractor Portal is a new OFCCP platform where covered federal contractors and subcontractors must certify, on an annual basis, whether they are meeting their requirement to develop and maintain annual Affirmative Action Programs (AAPs). Companies [...]
In June, the EEOC announced that they added a nonbinary “X” gender option on documents given to those filing a discrimination charge. The EEOC said “there is a growing recognition that presenting only male and female options does not reflect the full range of gender identities.” The EEOC updated the voluntary demographic questions relating to [...]
In May the OFCCP published a new CSAL for supply & service contractors. There are 400 federal contractors and subcontractors on this list. The CSAL is a courtesy notification to contractors selected for an OFCCP audit. OFCCP encourages contractors to take advantage of this notification to prepare and ensure they are in full compliance. To [...]
The OFCCP issued their first formal directive during the Biden Administration on March 15. DIR 2022-01 “Pay Equity Audits” provides guidance on how the OFCCP will evaluate contractor’s compliance with pay equity during audits, and clarifies the OFCCP’s authority to access and review pay equity audits. The regulations do not currently require or specify a [...]