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Preparing for — and Surviving — an OFCCP Audit
DE Talk | If It’s Not in Writing, It Never Happened: Applicant Tracking & Recordkeeping Strategies to Ensure OFCCP Compliance
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 26: Compensation Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
DE Under 3: Court Held That Workday Was an “Agent” to Employers Licensing its AI Applicant Screening Tools
DE Under 3: Retirement of “Chevron Doctrine” Exposed Vulnerability of OFCCP’s Overreaching Interpretations of Some of its Rules
DE Under 3: OFCCP Must Shut Down its Administrative Court Prosecutions as a Result of SCOTUS’ SEC Jury Trial Case Decision
DE Under 3: OFCCP’s New Revisions & Additions to its Construction Contractor Compliance Audit Tools
DE Under 3: OFCCP VEVRAA Guidance Clarifies Protected Veteran “Benchmark for hiring” is Not a Hard Number Quota
DE Under 3: OFCCP Changes Up Important Technical Details of its Audit Selection Process in First FY 2024 CSAL
DE Under 3: EEOC’s Settlement with the SSA is a Cautionary Tale for Private Sector Employers & Federal Government Contractors
DE Under 3: Contractors Have Second Opportunity to Comment on OFCCP’s Supply & Service Contractor Portal Information Collection
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 17: Federal Contractor Fundamentals with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group, Part 2
DE Under 3: New OFCCP AI Guidance Misstates Adverse Impact Law Portending Much Coming Friction with Federal Contractors
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 16: Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group, Part 1
DE Under 3: An Explanation of the Current Federal Budget Bill Confusion
DE Under 3: Biden "Hits the Brakes" on Non-Defense Discretionary Budgets for Federal Agencies in FY 2025 Budget Proposal
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer issued Order 08-2025 and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a Bulletin explaining the Secretary’s Order. Importantly for federal...more
President Trump’s revocation of Executive Order 11246 on January 21, 2025, left federal contractors and subcontractors wondering what would be required going forward. On July 1, OFCCP published three Notices of Proposed...more
Five months after Executive Order (EO) 11246 was revoked, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has proposed revisions to its implementing regulations, including changes to affirmative action and data...more
OFCCP has published proposed modifications to the VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations which govern federal contractor affirmative action obligations for veterans and individuals with disabilities. The proposed changes to...more
In a move the Agency reported is designed to maintain healthcare access for active and retired service members and their families, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced a two-year extension...more
On March 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the appointment of Catherine Eschbach as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the agency charged with overseeing regulation and...more
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) has released its 2022 Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (“VEVRAA”) benchmark. Effective March 31, 2022, the new benchmark is 5.5%, a slight decrease...more
On March 30, 2021, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it was lowering the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark again this year. Effective March...more
On March 27, 2019, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that it was lowering the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark again this year. ...more
On March 27, 2019 the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) released its 2019 Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (“VEVRAA”) Benchmark. Effective March 31, 2019 the new benchmark is 5.9%, a...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced on March 27, 2019, that it is lowering the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark to 5.9...more
On August 10, 2018, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a new directive, 2018-04, announcing a plan to implement focused reviews of contractors’ compliance with Executive...more