At the end of last week, the OFCCP began mailing Scheduling Letters to selected Federal Contractors. For the Contractors who received Courtesy Scheduling Announcement Letters previously, be prepared. Since the case load of Compliance Officers’ is currently more manageable, expect more comprehensive and longer audits. Remember! The OFCCP itself addressed on its website that A contractor…
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Applying for employment is nerve-wracking enough without a disability. Try to imagine, then, if you had some form of disability that made it difficult to even navigate the on-line application process. What if you are blind but the application has no text-to-speech capability? Or, the application has a time limit that shuts you out after…
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Last month, Victoria Lipnic, interim Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expressed her opinion that the revisions to the EEO-1 form requiring disclosure of pay data from employers should be re-evaluated. Her statement fell short of advocating outright repeal, mainly because Democrats still have a majority of the seats on the Commission. Still,…
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With the new administration still getting its bearings, there was naturally some curiosity as to whether and when the interim director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) would continue with issuing Courtesy Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSALs). The wait for an answer is over as of February 21, 2017, when CSALs signed by…
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A few weeks after his inauguration in January, Donald Trump appointed the only Republican Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Victoria Lipnic, as the acting chair of the Commission. The question on the minds of many employers and human resource professionals, however, was not who was going to be appointed, but whether the new…
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OFCCP Compliance Checklist to be Audit-Ready