July 01, 2022
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OMB Announces New Review (and Perhaps Revision) of Race/Ethnicity Reporting Standards

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published an official notice announcing that it is forming a new Interagency Technical Working Group to review and possibly revise the current standards governing the race and ethnicity categories used in collecting and reporting demographic data to the federal government. Formally known as “Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (Directive No....
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June 17, 2022
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

GAO Issues Report Concluding OFCCP Can Do a Better Job on Its VEVRAA Oversight

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the research arm of the U.S. Congress, has issued a report concluding that the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) isn’t doing enough to help federal contractors comply with their affirmative action obligations for veterans protected under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). The 45-page report, entitled “Equal Employment...
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May 13, 2022
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Final Filing Deadline for 2021 EEO-1 Reports Now June 21, But Issues Still Remain

The EEOC has announced that it will not accept 2021 EEO-1 report beyond June 21, 2022, a de facto extension of the May 17 filing deadline. In the meantime, there are still some issues that filers may want to consider before certifying their reports. The filing season for the 2021 “Component 1” Employer Information (EEO-1) Reports is nearing its official...
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April 22, 2022
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Resets Vets Hiring Benchmark at 5.5%, Down From Last Year’s 5.6%

The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has updated its national percentage of veterans in the civilian labor force, an annual measure that most federal contractors use as their “protected veterans hiring benchmark.” The vets annual percentage is used by the agency to evaluate the progress a federal contractor is making in meeting its affirmative action...
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April 01, 2022
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Latest BLS Disability Employment Data Show Positive Albeit Modest Trend

The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has published its 2021 report on disability employment in the United States. While the agency’s annual report covers only data at the national level, limiting its overall value for purposes of corporate benchmarking, it does contain several data points that still may be of interest to CWC members. Perhaps most significantly,...
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March 18, 2022
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

New OFCCP Directive Instructs COs To Review Contractors’ “Pay Equity” Analyses

In the first agency directive issued since she was appointed, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Director Jenny Yang has instructed OFCCP compliance officers (COs) to collect and analyze federal contractors’ “pay equity audits” during routine compliance evaluations, regardless of whether those studies were conducted with the assistance of in-house or outside counsel under the “attorney-client privilege” or “attorney...
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