The OFCCP has quietly posted a second Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) on their website. The list contains 1,000 “fresh” contractor establishments or functions that have been selected, but not yet scheduled for, a compliance evaluation. True to their word in the OFCCP’s revised Scheduling Letter, they are now listing “University” as Continue Reading...
How You File EEO-1 and VETS Reports Matters Much More Now
With the EEO-1 and VETS-4212 filing seasons just weeks away, federal contractor employers need to be paying closer attention to the way their organization files those reports, keeping in mind the impact it could have on their affirmative action efforts. The EEO-1 reports are primarily administered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Continue Reading...
EEO-1 Filing Season to Begin on Halloween
We finally have a date for the start of the EEO-1 filing season this year, Tuesday, October 31, 2023. Yes, that is Halloween. And on that day the ghosts and ghouls will also open the Help Desk to assist any trick-or-treaters getting an early start. But filers will have until Tuesday, December 5, 2023 to complete and file their 2022 Continue Reading...
OFCCP’s New Scheduling Letter is Here!
In case you missed it, the OFCCP has revised its standard “Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing,” the documents used to initiate an agency compliance evaluation (you and I call them “audits”). Not only does receipt of this letter signal the official start of an audit, but it also effectively serves as a subpoena for documents and information that Continue Reading...
EEOC Bags First “AI” (?) Discrimination Settlement
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), along with the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), have been putting the world on notice that these civil rights law enforcement agencies are very interested in how employers are rolling out a tidal wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Continue Reading...