You may have heard that the OFCCP announced that it reached a settlement with Comcast on Thursday April 30, 2015. Per the settlement terms, Comcast will pay $53,633 in back pay and interest to 96 current and former female employees and $133,366 in back pay and interest to 100 Asian, African-American and Hispanic applicants to…
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Many of us know that to be a direct federal contractor we must first have one or more contracts under which we do business with one or more federal government agencies by providing goods or services. We also know that in order to be subject to federal Affirmative Action requirements, we must have 50 or…
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In Part I of this post we examined the close connection between the OFCCP’s focus on pay equity and the hiring of veterans and individuals with disabilities (IWD’s) in 2014 and President Obama’s agenda. We continue here by comparing the President’s agenda and actions regarding LGBT workers and other, more general workers’ rights issues with…
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The OFCCP has kicked off 2015 by fulfilling one of its promises: it has issued proposed rules intended to update its sex discrimination guidelines, which have not been updated since 1970. The OFCCP published the proposed rules in The Federal Register today. You can find the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) here. Federal contractors and…
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Every year we like to provide you, our readers in the federal contracting community, with a year-in-review and look ahead to the coming year to ensure that you are aware of trends that could impact your business. Typically, that means reviewing the OFCCP’s stated goals against its actions and then make an educated projection of…
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OFCCP Compliance Checklist to be Audit-Ready