As we previously reported, President Biden signed an executive order earlier this month to require federal contractor employers to ensure their employees working on or in connection with a qualifying federal contract (or subcontract) are “fully vaccinated.” The contours of the new requirement would rely on guidance to be issued by the newly-formed, Continue Reading...
OFCCP Will Require New Census Data for AAPs Starting January 1, 2022
According to a new notice on the OFCCP’s website, the 2021 AAP cycle will be the last for which the agency will accept external availability estimates based on 2006-2010 5-Year ACS data. For AAPs prepared on or after January 1, 2022, the OFCCP will expect contractors to be using the new, 2014-2018 EEO Tabulation. Contractors preparing AAPs that Continue Reading...
OFCCP Quietly Reverses Policy on EEO-1 Component 2 Data
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published a notice in the Federal Register that the agency is reversing its position regarding EEO-1 “Component 2” compensation data. The OFCCP is announcing that the agency will now analyze the data to see if it can be used to “inform” enforcement and compliance efforts and/or to Continue Reading...
OFCCP’s AAP Verification Interface Approved by OMB
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finally approved the “Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface” (AAP-VI) for use by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). In response to a critical 2016 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding the OFCCP’s enforcement practices, the Continue Reading...
OFCCP Publishes New Construction CSAL
The OFCCP has just published a new “Corporate Scheduling Announcement List” (CSAL) for construction contractors, adding 400 more contractor establishments to the audit bingo ball hopper. The agency is still working off the 2020 construction CSAL, but according to the OFCCP’s published methodology, the various regional offices must exhaust the 2020 Continue Reading...
