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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened its EEO-1 filing platform on May 20, 2025. The deadline for employers to file their EEO-1 reports will be Tuesday, June 24, 2025....more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on Nov. 25, 2024, that it is reinstating a monthly employment data reporting requirement for construction contractors beginning April 15, 2025....more
On November 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that its planned new monthly employment data collection form for federal contractors and subcontractors...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) just announced it is reinstating a monthly compliance filing report for covered construction contractors and subcontractors. With an initial due date of April 15,...more
On October 29, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a public notice that it received two requests for contractors’ 2021 Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports under the...more
The University of Utah and a non-profit organization named "As You Sow" have issued FOIA requests to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) for the 2021 Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports filed by federal...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
Objections are due by December 9. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it has received additional requests for contractors’ EEO-1 Reports under the Freedom of Information Act. These FOIA...more
Federal officials recently received several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to disclose certain reports from federal contractors that include sensitive employee demographic data — specifically the release of 2021...more
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has given final approval to a monthly data collection from construction companies. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) had requested this data collection in...more
On July 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released a revised version of form CC-257 that would collect data on construction employees working for federal...more
As organizations are preparing and filing the 2023 EEO-1 Data Collection reports, (deadline is June 4th) there’s a change on the horizon for future reporting. For the first time in over twenty-five years, in March, 2024 the...more
Ensuring that applicant data is collected and maintained correctly is one of the most important pieces of compliance with OFCCP regulations. Properly documented applicant data can minimize or eliminate errant indicators of...more
The federal government has revised the racial and ethnic categories that apply to data collection efforts across federal agencies, including the EEO-1 survey administered by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...more
On March 29, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15). These...more
The Office of Management and Budget updated the federal government’s standards for maintaining, collecting, and presenting information on race and ethnicity. The government’s standards for classifying race and ethnicity...more
On March 29, 2024, the federal government released a new “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity.” This update aims to better reflect the growing diversity of the people of...more
As previously reported, in late December 2023, the Northern District of California ordered OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors it had previously withheld from production based on various exemptions under...more
As 2023 ends, despite the visions of sugar plums dancing in your head, it is a good time to take stock of government initiatives affecting your Affirmative Action practice, the better to get ready for 2024. Many things...more
Despite objections by thousands of employers and its own continuing review of records, the OFCCP has been ordered by a federal court to produce all EEO-1 Type 2 reports of federal prime contractors and first-tier...more
Executive Summary: On December 22, 2023, a federal court in California ordered the OFCCP to release the EEO-1 reports of federal contractors who had filed an objection to the agency’s release of their EEO-1 data in response...more
On December 12, 2023, OFCCP published a notice in the Federal Register requesting comments on the renewal of its Information Collection Request (ICR) for the Contractor Portal. This is the first step to extend the expiration...more
As we move closer to the October 31, 2023, opening date of the 2022 EEO-1 filing platform, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued an updated instruction booklet and set of answers to frequently...more
How does the Supreme Court of the United States’ ban on affirmative action in higher education affect government contractors? In short—it doesn’t. Covered federal contractors and subcontractors must continue to comply with...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) recently revised its Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305 (“Form CC-305”). Federal contractors and...more