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On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will launch its electronic Contractor Portal, through which covered federal...

U.S. Department of Labor, including OFCCP, recently issued its Fall 2021 Regulatory Agenda, which identifies the regulatory goals the Agency would like to achieve during the fiscal year and beyond.

On 2 December 2021, OFCCP announced it is moving forward with an Affirmative Action Program AAP Verification Interface to provide a mechanism for federal contractors to certify annually their obligations to develop and maintain AAPs for each establishment or functional unit.

President Biden on Friday released his request to the Congress for a budget for the Executive Branch of the federal government for Fiscal Year 2022 (beginning October 1, 2021). All...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Employer Update: Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it has revised its Fiscal Year 2020 Supply and Service Scheduling List by removing all establishments that were previously selected to receive a focused review and/or compliance check. The revisions drastically reduce the number of establishments that will be evaluated pursuant to the 2020 Corporate Scheduling Announcemen...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Today, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced it is updating its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Supply and Service Scheduling List (Scheduling List) by removing establishments previously selected for a focused review or compliance check. Notably, the amendment to the Scheduling List will have no impact on contractors with open or unscheduled audits. The FY 2020 Construction Scheduling list, however, has not been r...

  X The OFCCP will have the authority to use these Scheduling Letters after receiving approval from OMB, and the agencys Proposed Construction Scheduling Letter The OFCCP has also submitted to the OMB a proposed Scheduling Letter for construction contractors. If implemented, the OFCCP would no longer automatically conduct on-site reviews of construction contractors; rather, the process would proceed as it does for supply and service contractors, commencing with a desk audit and resulting in a...

Foot forward. thats what differentiated him from his competitors and thats what drew these parents to him. >> 50 people, parents, coaches among them have been implicated in this whole thing. do you think singer had help outside of that, perhaps with his businesses, do you think more charges are forthcoming? >> i think this is the beginning of a pretty broad net thats going to pull in a lot more folks at schools. the number of folks who were part of getting these kids tested and then cheating on ...

What does that tell you about the way we are living right now? >> it is really outrageous what was going on. you read this lengthy indictment it is crazy. it comes at a time when theres to go on affirmative action programs under this misleading that they are only getting sba college on the basis of race. those programs while designed to boost minority groups only factor as one of many categories when looking at someones college admission application. it gets to the point that there are a privile...

Being with me. i know where you two stand, but i want everyone else to hear it. so tara, starting with you first, how do you see it? >> i feel like the issue of reparations, however youre defining them, that makes a difference because direct reparation payments i think is impractical. i dont think thats necessarily the way to go about it. that doesnt say that were not acknowledging the inequalities. all of those things are true. but as a country weve tried in many different ways to try to rectif...