The Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) is currently seeking to extend approval for the current VETS-4212 form for another three years and is soliciting public comment regarding whether and to what extent the agency should make any changes to the current form. Note that the agency itself is not proposing any Continue Reading...
OFCCP Backs Off TRICARE Providers
In a final rule set to be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will finally put to bed the question of whether or not TRICARE contracts confer agency jurisdiction—they do not. TRICARE, managed by the Defense Health Agency, is a federal health care program Continue Reading...
Trump Administration Suspends Contracting Laws for Border Wall – EEO/AA Laws Not Affected
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will publish in tomorrow’s Federal Register a notice that certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements will be waived with respect to the construction of barriers and roads along the southern border with Mexico. The Acting Secretary is suspending a host of procurement laws under the authority of Continue Reading...
EEOC Officially Reinstates “Component 2” Reporting and Sets Deadlines
As anticipated, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the “immediate reinstatement of the Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection,” commonly known as “Component 2.” EEOC’s initial announcement stated that the agency intends to collect 2018 pay data by September 30, 2019 (opening the Continue Reading...