The first half of 2025 brought unprecedented changes for federal contractors seeking to comply with federal affirmative action requirements. The rescission of Executive Order 11246 via Executive Order 14173 upended decades of...more
Like clockwork, the 2024 VETS-4212 reporting platform will open on August 1, 2024, with the filings due by September 30, 2024. Unlike the EEO-1 reports, the VETS-4212 reports have maintained a consistent opening date for many...more
The Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) in the U.S. Department of Labor is requesting an extension for the currently approved VETS-4212 Report. No changes are proposed. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act...more
In this webinar, Associate Consultant Ben Kerner and Consultant Terri Cordia go over this year's EEO-1 and VETS 4212 filings. They'll discuss the new timelines and deadlines, new names for reports, and what our experts see on...more
It is a new year and that means a fresh round of compliance reporting obligations for many companies. Here’s what lies ahead for 2022. California Pay Data Reports On September 30, 2020, California Governor Gavin...more
On December 2, 2021 the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an announcement introducing its new contractor portal. OFCCP describes the portal as a “platform where covered contractors must certify...more
EEO-1 Reports - With September upon us, many employers are remembering the prior filing deadline for EEO-1 Reports and wondering what is happening with that obligation. The short answer is that the U.S. Equal Employment...more
While the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) postponed the 2019 EEO-1 filing deadline due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS), which is in charge of the VETS-4212...more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced a pair of major changes to the EEO-1 filing process. The most recent was on May 7, 2020, when the EEOC announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: This alert provides an update on the impact of COVID-19 on OFCCP audits and jurisdiction, EEO-1 and VETS-4212 filing deadlines. The OFCCP has granted a limited national interest exemption for new COVID-19...more
After all the excitement over the 2018 EEO-1 filings—including the on-and-off-again inclusion of compensation data—the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) requirements for filing the...more
The 2017 EEO-1 survey is now open for 2017 filings, which affected employers must completed by March 31, 2018. To access the survey and begin the filing process, click on the login button on the U.S. Equal Employment...more
Employers subject to EEO-1 reporting were relieved to learn that the controversial new pay data reporting requirement for this year’s EEO-1 report was recently suspended. ...more
VETS has announced a 45-day extension to the 2017 VETS-4212 filing deadline. The deadline has been extended from September 30, 2017 to November 15, 2017. In a post on it’s website, VETS stated-...more
Employers with 100 or more employees (and federal contractors with 50 or more employees) must submit an EEO-1 Report annually, detailing the race, gender, and ethnicity of its workforce. In September of 2016, the Equal...more
This is the time of year when employers with 100 or more employees (and federal contractors with 50 or more employees) would typically be gathering information to complete the EEO-1 reporting by September 30. However, on...more
On July 24, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) sent a letter clarifying the data collection and reporting periods for the VETS-4212 and EEO-1 reports. The letter explains...more
With August comes federal contractors' obligation to file the annual VETS-4212 report—which collects information on contractors' employees who are protected veterans—based on a snapshot of their workforce taken between July 1...more
As we have reported previously, the EEO-1 filing process is changing. The EEO-1 reports that would have been required by September 30, 2017, now do not have to be filed until March 31, 2018. The “catch” is that the new EEO-1...more
It’s that time of year again to start preparing for the annual required VETS-4212 filing. Nothing will change for this year (2017) reporting cycle. Starting August 1, 2017, contractors will be able to file their 2017 reports...more
It’s that time of the year! No, back-to-school is still a few weeks away. It’s time for employers to start filing their EEO-1 and VETS-4212 reports. The filing period for the EEO-1 and VETS-4212 Reports is now open....more