July 24, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC Urges OMB To Ameliorate Burden Imposed by OFCCP’s Construction Contractor Letter

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) has submitted comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in response to a request from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for authorization to use an expanded version of the construction contractor scheduling letter and itemized listing that the agency uses to notify construction contractors of a compliance...
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July 18, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

OFCCP Submits Formal Request to OMB To Reinstate Burdensome Construction Contractor Report

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has submitted a formal request to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reinstate the burdensome Utilization Report (Form CC-257). The report will require covered construction contractors and subcontractors to collect and report headcount and work hours data by race, ethnicity, sex, and construction trade on a...
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July 09, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Financial Settlements in FY 2024 Q1-Q3

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced 16 formal settlements of enforcement actions against federal contractors during the first three quarters of fiscal year 2024, which spans the time period from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. A financial settlement does not indicate wrongdoing. The Center for Workforce Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership...
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July 01, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Asks OMB To Expand Construction Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has submitted a formal request to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to use a more detailed scheduling letter and itemized listing to notify federal construction contractors of a compliance audit. OFCCP unveiled its proposal for a new scheduling letter back in March. The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our...
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June 26, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Last Minute Technical Issues Once Again Impact OFCCP Contractor Portal Certification

With the July 1 certification deadline fast approaching, technical issues are again bedeviling OFCCP’s online Contractor Portal and preventing some federal contractors and subcontractors from certifying compliance with the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. The “Add Establishment” button is no longer available for many contractors on the “My Company” page. Other contractors are unable to certify more...
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June 18, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC Urges OMB To Recognize the Compliance Burden Imposed by OFCCP’s Contractor Portal

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has commented on a request by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to continue using its contractor portal. Federal contractors and subcontractors must use the contractor portal, an online tool, to certify annually that they have developed and maintained affirmative action programs (AAPs) in accordance with OFCCP’s...
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June 12, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

OFCCP Posts New “CSAL” Flagging 500 Entities for Compliance Audits

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has posted a new Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) notifying 500 supply-and-service federal contractor establishments that it has flagged them for an upcoming compliance evaluation. The FY 2024 CSAL Supply & Service Scheduling List, Release – 1 and updated FAQs show that OFCCP has identified 440 establishments for standard compliance reviews, 30...
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June 12, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

OMB Approves Use of Current Version of VETS-4212 for Another Three Years

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the Labor Department’s request to continue using the current version of the Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report (VETS-4212) through the 2026 filing season. The VETS-4212 is a mandatory annual report that covered federal contractors must file with DOL’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS). The VETS-4212 is designed to collect...
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May 23, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

DOL’s Brief to Ninth Circuit in EEO-1 Data FOIA Litigation Defends Nondisclosure

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) should not be required to disclose the EEO-1 data of federal contractors that objected to the data’s release, the Labor Department told a federal appellate court in a brief filed May 9, 2024. In Center for Investigative Reporting v. U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
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May 16, 2024
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Category: AAP

OFCCP Files Formal Request With OMB To Extend Use of Contractor Portal

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on May 13, 2024, submitted a formal request to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew its contractor portal for three years. Since 2022, federal contractors and subcontractors have used the portal, an online tool, to certify their affirmative action programs (AAPs). OFCCP announced in December 2023...
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