Introduction The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published multiple FAQs on July 23, 2019 to provide further guidance to federal contractors in their efforts to understand and comply with anti-discrimination regulations. 'Practical Significance in EEO Analysis' attempts to provide clarity on when a statistically significant disparity may or may not be practically significant and, therefore, a...

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In August of 2018, OFCCP announced that future scheduling lists for compliance evaluations by the OFCCP would include reviews focused solely on compliance with Section 503, “to ensure that federal contractors fully comply with equal employment opportunity obligations and consider other best practices to increase employment of qualified individuals with disabilities”. In March 2019, when the next and most recent...

The September 30, 2019, deadline for filing EEO-1 Component 2 pay data reports is just a few days away. The Component 2 filing requirement came from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in an order issued by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on April 25, 2019, that jump-started the rush to the September 30 deadline. While the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) contemplated the Component 2 filings in 2016...

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Since the onset of low unemployment rates, hiring newly released veterans has been the buzz in the recruiting world as pools of qualified candidates shrink. In the last five years, there has been a plethora of resources popping up, many of them veterans themselves, offering their services to both employers and veterans to bridge the gap of understanding between the two. From skills match, to resume writing, to interviewing,...

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OFCCP offers contractors answers to puzzling questions. Wondering about whether to count student workers? Or whether multiple locations can be combined into one Affirmative Action Plan? These are questions that have vexed many contractors, particularly institutions of higher education. On September 5, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a Directive and a set of FAQs to address these issues. D...

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