April 02, 2025
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Category: Compliance Tools

CWC’s Updated EEO/AA Union Notification Template

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its union notification template to reflect the rescission of E.O. 11246. CWC members that are federal contractors can use this template to notify covered union officials or employee representatives of the employer’s equal opportunity and affirmative action policies and to request their cooperation. OFCCP regulations implementing Section 503...
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March 24, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Updated 2022 EEO-1 Benchmark Tables

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, is pleased to provide its members with an updated set of labor market benchmarking tables incorporating the latest headcount data from the 2022 EEO-1 filing cycle. The 2022 EEO-1 Tabulations have been loaded into CWC’s Data Center. A comparison of the 2022 data with 2021 data and 2018’s pre-pandemic data...
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February 25, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC’s Updated Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy Templates

CWC, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its equal opportunity and affirmative action policy statement templates to reflect the rescission of Executive Order 11246. These templates, available to our member companies, can help federal contractors as they review their policies to ensure compliance with E.O. 14173. There are two versions of the templates: (1) an Affirmative Action Policy Statement,...
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August 06, 2024
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Category: Compliance Tools

CWC’s Updated Template for Mandatory ESDS Notifications Under VEVRAA

CWC has updated a template that can assist its federal contractor members in meeting their employment service delivery system (ESDS) notice requirements. CWC’s members can use the updated template to satisfy the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) ESDS notice obligations under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) requirements codified at 41 CFR § 60-300.5(a)(4). That rule...
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June 26, 2023
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

“Unit Number” Issue Is Complicating OFCCP AAP-VI Portal Compliance

As the June 29, 2023, deadline approached for federal contractors and subcontractors to certify compliance with their AAP obligations via the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) online AAP-VI portal, an issue involving unit numbers arose for some federal contractors. OFCCP’s Contractor Portal requires every AAP establishment listing to have a unique Unit Number that aligns with the...
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November 18, 2022
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Category: Compliance Tools

Updated Guide to OFCCP Notice Posting Requirements

Now that the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced that covered federal contractors must begin posting the new “Know Your Rights” poster recently issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in lieu of the familiar “EEO is the Law” poster, we thought it would be helpful to provide employers with an updated guide to...
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November 11, 2022
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Biden Administration Issues “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights”

The Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Biden White House has published a white paper outlining five “principles” that should guide the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-making tools that have “the potential to meaningfully impact [the] rights, opportunities, or access” of the American public at large. Although this so-called AI Bill of Rights...
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November 07, 2022
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Category: Agency Enforcement

As Expected, OFCCP Adopts EEOC’s New “Know Your Rights” Poster

We reported last week that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a new “Know Your Rights” poster to replace the familiar “EEO is the Law” poster that covered employers have used for many years to meet EEOC and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) posting requirements. As we predicted, the Labor Department’s OFCCP has now also announced...
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November 07, 2022
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Category: Compliance Tools

Revise Model Self-ID Form Strengthens Confidentiality Disclaimer

The self-identification forms used by many employers in response to government demographic data reporting requirements typically contain a prominent disclosure that personal identifying data such as race, ethnicity, and sex will be kept confidential subject to certain conditions. For many years, we have made available to our employers a “model self-ID template” that contains a suggested confidentiality disclaimer. We are...
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October 28, 2022
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Category: Compliance Tools

EEOC Issues New “Know Your Rights” Poster

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) has replaced its longstanding “EEO is the Law” poster with a new version, entitled “Know Your Rights.” The new poster makes several significant changes, including the addition of a “QR code” that when scanned directs a person to the EEOC’s webpage explaining how to file a charge of employment discrimination. Current EEOC...
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