Effective March 31, 2021, the national percentage of veterans in the civilian labor force, as published on the OFCCP website, is now 5.6% (down from 5.7% last year). If your organization adopts the national percentage as the annual protected veteran benchmark, and your AAP start date is on or after March 31, you should use the new 5.6% Continue Reading...
Check the CSAL—You May Have Been Dropped!
The OFCCP has significantly revised the latest audit scheduling list, officially called the “Corporate Scheduling Announcement List” (CSAL), removing entities selected for focused reviews, along with a few other housekeeping/clean-up items. Rather than re-classify focused reviews as full audits or corporate management compliance evaluations Continue Reading...
Executive Order 13950 Has Been Rescinded
The much-maligned Executive Order (E.O.) 13950, “Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping,” was rescinded by the new Biden Administration on January 20, 2021. Federal agencies, particularly the OFCCP, are ordered to review and identify proposed and existing actions related to or arising from E.O. 13950 and, within 60 days, “consider suspending, Continue Reading...
Shhhh…We Appear to Have a New OFCCP Director
Just don’t tell anyone! The OFCCP’s website has various pages detailing the leadership structure, their biographies, and even a National Office directory that can be used to confirm who is sitting in what chair. Although those pages have yet to be updated and still list Craig Leen as the Director, the parent site over at the Department of Labor was Continue Reading...
OFCCP Publishes Final Rule Revising Religious Exemptions
Well over a year since the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published its proposed rule updating regulations implementing the religious exemptions from certain nondiscrimination prohibitions under Executive Order (E.O.) 11246, the agency is finally publishing the final rule in the waning days of the Trump Continue Reading...
