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OFCCP Updates Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act Hiring Benchmark OFCCP has once again updated the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark. Effective March 31, 2023, the new veteran hiring benchmark (the percentage of total hires who are protected veterans that the contractor seeks to hire in the following AAP year) is 5.4%. This is a 0.1% decrease from the 5.5% mark... Continue Reading… March 31, 2023	Jenny Yang Stepping Down as OFCCP Director By Nicholas Santucci Jenny Yang announced earlier today in a letter to OFCCP stakeholders that she will step down from her position as Director of the OFCCP, effective March 31, 2023. Director Yang will begin a new position as the Deputy Assistant to the President for Racial Justice and Equity at the White House Domestic... Continue Reading… March 30, 2023	OFCCP Contractor Portal to Re-Open March 31, 2023 On March 20, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it will re-open the Contractor Portal on March 31, 2023. Once open, covered federal contractors and subcontractors must certify that they have developed and maintained AAPs before the June 29, 2023, deadline. In a change from last year that should benefit... Continue Reading… March 21, 2023
OFCCP Announces Mega Construction Project Initiative; Focus on Construction Contractors Continues OFCCP has launch its Mega Construction Project (Megaproject) Program, intended to increase compliance attention on and provide compliance assistance to federal construction contractors with federally funded projects valued at $35 million or more and lasting at least one year. This development marks another step in OFCCP Director Jenny Yang’s campaign to reinvigorate OFCCP’s oversight of... Continue Reading… March 15, 2023	OFCCP Updates FOIA ‘Non-Objector’ List: Last Chance to Respond Ends March 17 OFCCP has published another updated “List of Non-Objectors” for which it intends to release EEO-1 Type 2 data from 2016 to 2020 in response to the FOIA request from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Any contractors who objected through March 3, 2023, were removed from the updated list. OFCCP first released a list of non-objectors... Continue Reading… March 10, 2023	New FAQs Dramatically Expand Scope of California “Labor Contractor Employee” Pay Data Reporting This year, employers in California have updated pay data reports to submit to the state’s Civil Rights Department (CRD). Senate Bill (SB) 1162, passed in 2022, updated previous employee pay data reporting obligations and created an entirely new obligation to pay data reporting related to “employees hired through labor contractors.” This year, these pay data... Continue Reading… March 6, 2023
OFCCP Rescinds Trump-Era Religious Exemption Rule OFCCP has announced the rescission of the Implementing Legal Requirements Regarding the Equal Opportunity Clause’s Religious Exemption rule adopted in January 2021 by President Donald Trump. The rescission is to be posted in the Federal Register on March 1, 2023. In November 2021 OFCCP published a proposal to rescind the rule on the basis the... Continue Reading… March 1, 2023	OFCCP Further Extends Deadline to Submit Objections to Release of EEO-1 Data As yet another update to this ongoing story, OFCCP has again pushed out the date by which contractors can notify OFCCP of their desire to object to production by the Agency of EEO-1 data in response to the Center for Investigative Reporting. By way of notice on its OFCCP Submitter Notice Response Portal, the Agency... Continue Reading… February 14, 2023	UPDATE: OFCCP Extends Deadline for Contractors to Confirm Objection to Disclosure of EEO-1 Data As an update to our report last week, OFCCP has announced an extension of the deadline for contractors to confirm their desire to have their EEO-1 data withheld from production in response to the pending Center for Investigative Reporting FOIA request. In a statement posted on the FOIA objection portal, OFCCP instructed: This is a... Continue Reading… February 7, 2023
Breaking News: OFCCP Posts List of Contractors Whose EEO-1 Data Will Be Released on February 8, 2023 In an attempt to give contractors a final opportunity to object to release of their EEO-1 data, OFCCP has posted a list of contractors for whom the Agency will release the reports in response to the FOIA request filed by the Center for Investigative Reporting. OFCCP’s e-mail message states: To ensure the accuracy of our... Continue Reading… February 2, 2023

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