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Important updates and expert insights on OFCCP regulations and affirmative action compliance.
EEOC Likely to Continue Collecting Compensation Data Past Deadline
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on Friday, September 27th that it will continue to collect data for Component 2 of the EEO-1 Report (i.e. W-2 and hours worked) until it has reached a court mandated 72.7% response rate from covered...
OFCCP Issues FAQs on “Practical Significance in EEO Analysis”
OFCCP recently addressed the concept of "practical significance", and the role it plays in discrimination investigations, in a new section on the agency's Frequently Asked Questions page. The new FAQs signal a major change in the way that OFCCP will review data to...
OFCCP Provides Responses to FAQs on Validation of Employee Selection Procedures
OFCCP has issued responses on its website to a series of newly posted frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding validation and employee selection. In its responses, the agency provided information on how it defines a "selection procedure", when a selection procedure...
Scalia Nomination Advances to Senate Floor
The nomination of Eugene Scalia to be the new Secretary of Labor has advanced to the full Senate. On Tuesday, September 24, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved Scalia's nomination on a party-line 12 to 11 vote. Scalia would succeed Alex...
VETS-4212 Filing Cycle is Open; Deadline is September 30, 2019
On August 1, 2019, the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) opened its electronic portal for the 2019 filing season of the VETS-4212 report. Federal contractors and subcontractors are required to file their 2019 VETS-4212 reports with VETS by September 30,...
EEOC Proposes End to Pay Data Collection
EEOC has submitted a proposal to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) which would discontinue pay data collection for the future. However, employers subject to the pay data collection requirements must submit data for 2017 and 2018 by September 30, 2019. EEOC,...
OFCCP Seeks Comments on NPRM Clarifying Religious Organizations Exemption by September 16, 2019
On August 16, 2019, OFCCP proposed a new rule clarifying civil rights protections for religious organizations that are federal contractors or subcontractors. This proposed rule would apply to the religious exemption that appears in the current affirmative action...
EEOC Provides Guidance Regarding Non-Binary Employees
EEOC is currently in the midst of collecting pay data for 2017 and 2018. The data is being collected by NORC at the University of Chicago. The NORC website where pay data is being collected has a series of FAQs and responses from EEOC regarding this collection of pay...
EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data Collection Portal Open
On Monday, July 15, 2019, EEOC announced that its web-based portal for the collection of 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 Component 2 data is active. “Component 2” refers to the portion of the EEO-1 report that requires organizations meeting the 100-employee threshold to submit...
OFCCP Announces Appointment of New Ombudsman
As part of the agency's ongoing transparency initiative, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has announced the appointment of Marcus Stergio to the newly created position of Ombudsman. According to a press release from the Department of Labor, the...