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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Disclosure of Federal Contractor EEO-1 Reports on Hold After DOL Appeals

A federal court has temporarily stayed its order from December 2023 forcing the Department of Labor (DOL) to release EEO-1 reports from federal contractors that objected to the data’s release. The case arose from a news organization’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on February 16, 2024, put on hold...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The new version covers the rules for filing 2023 calendar year data, which must be submitted to California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) by May 8, 2024. CWC’s guide provides tips on identifying the data that must be...
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Category: Comment Letter

CWC’s Comments to OFCCP Urge Burden-Easing Changes to Contractor Portal

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has filed written comments with the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) urging it to reduce the compliance burden posed by its contractor portal. CWC’s comments responded to the agency’s announced intent to seek  approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Includes Revised Guidance, Data Specifications

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has opened California’s mandated Pay Data Reporting cycle for calendar year 2023. New requirements are likely to increase the burden on covered employers. They still must report the total number of workers by race, ethnicity, sex, pay band, and federal EEO-1 job category, but within that total, employers now also must identify three additional data...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC Comments to DOL Support Extension of VETS-4212 Report, Without Change

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) supports the three-year extension of the Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report (VETS-4212) proposed by the U.S. Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS). Covered federal contractors must file the VETS-4212 report annually with DOL-VETS. It provides a snapshot of a contractor’s workforce broken down by protected veteran status, location, and job category. Contractors...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Updated Summary of Federal EEO/AA Recordkeeping Requirements Now Available Online

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its comprehensive summary of federal EEO/AA recordkeeping requirements. Summary of Recordkeeping Requirements: Federal Fair Employment and Affirmative Action Laws incorporates changes that have occurred since 2017. The new summary covers the FEP/AA recordkeeping requirements imposed under 12 federal statutes, including the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act,...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Federal Court Tells OFCCP To Disclose Consolidated EEO-1 Data, Despite Contractor Objections

A federal district court in California has ordered the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to turn over federal contractors’ EEO-1 “Type 2” consolidated data in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), a California-based public interest group. After giving contractors time to object, in April 2023, OFCCP...
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Category: AAP

OFCCP Announces Intent To Extend Contractor Portal Requirements

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced that it intends to seek approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to keep using its Contractor Portal, the online tool that allows federal contractors to certify annually that they have developed and maintained Affirmative Action Programs (AAPs) in accordance with OFCCP regulations. The...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEO-1 Filers Should Check Historical Reports in Wake of Recent Database Display Error

A contractor that administers the annual Employer Information (EEO-1) Report for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is advising that historical EEO-1 Reports from 2015 through 2021 that were downloaded in conjunction with the current EEO-1 filing cycle might have displayed incorrect data. According to the contractor, historic reports accessed in the OFS [Online Filing System] between October 31...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

DOL Seeking Routine Three-Year Extension of Current VETS-4212 Report

The Department of Labor’s Veterans Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) announced November 28, 2023, that it will ask the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to allow it to keep using the current version of the Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report (VETS-4212) for three more years. Covered federal contractors must file the report with VETS annually. Public comments...

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