February 07, 2024
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Category: Veterans

Labor Department Now Accepting Applications for 2024 “HIRE Vets Medallion Awards”

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) is accepting applications for its 2024 HIRE Vets Medallion Award, an honor given annually around Veterans Day to employers that have shown commitment to hiring and retaining military veterans. Several CWC members have received the award since the program began in 2019. Employers who wish to be considered for...
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January 31, 2024
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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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December 12, 2023
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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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December 06, 2023
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Category: Data and Statistics

FY 2022 USERRA Discrimination Complaints Up 17% Over Previous Year

Enforcement statistics released recently by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) show that discrimination complaints filed with the agency under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) for fiscal year (FY) 2022 increased by 17 percent over FY 2021, reversing a decade-long downward trend. USERRA protects the employment and reemployment rights of employees...
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November 29, 2023
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Category: Veterans

CWC Members Once Again Among DOL’s Annual “HIRE Vets Medallion Award” Winners

Several members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, were recipients of the 2023 HIRE Vets Medallion Award. This program of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recognizes companies that demonstrate exemplary efforts to recruit, employ, and retain military veterans and provide community and charitable services supporting the veteran community. The award was created in...
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August 07, 2023
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Category: Reporting

VETS-4212 Filing Season Opens, Filing Deadline for Submitting Reports Is September 30, 2023

The Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) has announced the opening of the 2023 filing season for the annual VETS-4212 report that covered federal contractors must file. Completed reports are due September 30. The VETS-4212 provides a workforce snapshot by protected veteran status, as well as the contractor’s number of protected veteran new hires for the preceding 12-month...
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September 30, 2022
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Category: Government Contracts

Making Your 503/VEVRAA AAPs “Available” To Remote Applicants and Employees

Longstanding regulations issued by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 503) and Section 4212 of the Vietnam-Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) require covered federal contractors to make their written 503/VEVRAA affirmative action programs (AAPs) available to employees and applicants upon request, and further require that the...
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September 16, 2022
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Category: Veterans

USERRA Complaints Filed With DOL Declined Once Again in FY 2021

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has released enforcement statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2021 detailing the number of complaints filed with the agency by military service members under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). USERRA is the federal law that protects the employment and reemployment rights of employees who have been...
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August 05, 2022
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Category: Veterans

2022 VETS-4212 Filing Season Underway, Filing Deadline Is September 30

The Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has opened the 2022 filing season for the annual VETS-4212 report. The VETS-4212 is a mandatory form that covered federal contractors and subcontractors are required to complete and file annually with DOL-VETS that provides a job category snapshot of the workforce by “protected veteran” status, as well as the number...
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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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