Well, technically they have updated the percentage of veterans in the civilian labor force published on the OFCCP’s website, which is what most sane contractors use to set their veteran hiring benchmark for their VEVRAA AAP. The current benchmark is 5.4%, but effective Sunday, March 31, that figure will drop to 5.2%. AAPs with a start date Continue Reading...
Stay Compliant, Federal Contractors: Mark Your Calendars and Map Your Route for Reporting Obligations and Deadlines Ahead
If you are a federal contractor employer, you have a lot of reporting to do, and the schedule for your various federal reporting requirements keeps changing, which is not conducive to how most Human Resources departments like to operate. But the time to file annual EEO-1 reports and to certify AAP compliance is upon us. EEO-1 Ever since the Continue Reading...
OFCCP Proposing Some Big Construction Changes
The OFCCP has recently published two important notices in the Federal Register to drastically modify the information the agency collects from construction contractors, and in doing so signaling some potentially troubling policy changes. In particular, the OFCCP is overhauling the construction audit Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing, and it Continue Reading...
State Pay Transparency Efforts Graduate to the Federal Level
There is a new proposed rule coming down the pike with a lot of momentum that will bring state- and local-level pay transparency efforts to federal contractors. The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (which consists of the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, NASA, and Office of Federal Procurement Policy) is proposing Continue Reading...
Unraveling Intent: Exploring OFCCP Legal Challenges
An Expert Insight Series Part 1: Is Affirmative Action Legal? BCGi, and this author in particular, have been screaming for years for the OFCCP to clean up its regulations and, among other things, abandon anachronistic, confusing, and misleading terms. And we have been reminding practitioners that “affirmative action” in the federal Continue Reading...
