President Donald Trump’s recission of a 1965 Executive Order (EO) raised questions about how the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) would handle open investigations, pending cases, audits and complaints, as well as whether active...more
1/28/2025
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President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on Jan. 22, 2025 revoking several previous executive orders, including one that prohibited federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment based...more
1/23/2025
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In its effort to ensure that employers contracting with the federal government comply with three equal employment opportunity (EEO) laws — Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Vietnam...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently issued notice that it has received two new requests from the University of Utah and a nonprofit organization named “As You Sow,”...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently reauthorized its Construction Compliance Review Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing with several notable revisions (the Amended...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has selected 500 federal contractors and subcontractors to undergo affirmative action plan (AAP) audits. The names of the companies are contained in OFCCP’s Corporate...more
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on April 25, 2024 its designation of 16 additional federal construction projects to participate in the Mega Construction Project...more
The United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs’ (OFCCP) Contractor Portal opens on April 1, 2024. All eligible federal contractors must log in and certify their compliance with...more
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently designated 12 additional projects to participate in the Mega Construction Project Program (MCPP).
As we discussed in our March 28,...more
For the first time since May 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released an updated form for Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability that must be incorporated...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released a list of 12 large federal construction projects (megaprojects) that it has designated as being eligible for its Mega Construction...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced that federal contractors and subcontractors will have between March 31 and June 29, 2023 to certify their compliance with...more
After years of waiting, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) finally announced on December 2, 2021, the opening of its long anticipated Affirmative Action Program Verification...more
Last month the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) for the 2021 Fiscal Year (FY2021).
The CSAL is a courtesy notice to federal contractors...more
Over the past several years, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has been inching towards requiring all covered federal contractors to annually verify whether they have...more
Government contracts are often a critical source of business for many companies. However, companies that conduct business with federal and state governmental agencies must comply with a litany of complex laws and regulations...more
On July 2, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published the final rule, “Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination Obligations of Federal Contractors and...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently unveiled an updated version of the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form.
Federal contractors and subcontractors use this form to collect data...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that it would not request, accept or use EEO-1 Component 2 Pay Data collected by the Equal Employment...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) recently issued a Courtesy Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) notifying 500 contractors of potential audits to determine their compliance...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) recently published a list of 3,500 federal contractors that face possible Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) audits, and outlined five categories of review under which a contractor...more
Federal contractors beware: the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) intends to increase significantly the number of audits it performs in the current Fiscal Year 2019 to 3,500....more
A recently revived suit brought by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs highlights the Trump Administration’s continuing focus on tech contractors. As we discussed in an earlier Labor and Employment Alert, the...more
On September 7, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) sent 750 courtesy scheduling announcement letters (CSAL’s) to federal contractors notifying them that their affirmative...more
On February 1, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) mailed 1,000 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters (CSAL) to federal contractors and subcontractors. These...more