Over 3,500 contractor locations will be receiving scheduling letters according to the fiscal year (FY) 2019 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letter (CSAL) list that the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Library on March 25, 2019. In addition to the anticipated compliance reviews by OFCCP, contractors should be aware of another concern, often overlooked...
OFCCP’s Fiscal Year 2017 (FY2017) is coming to a close and the Agency may be looking to make some deals, particularly in matters alleging pattern and practice discrimination. For the past decade, OFCCP has engaged in what has been best described as 'plaintiff-style' tactics to achieve highly publicized, big-dollar settlements in its efforts to uncover workplace discrimination by federal contractors. Relying on Direc...
The long wait for the so-called “contractor blacklisting” final rule is over. On August 24, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (“FAR”) released the highly anticipated final regulations and guidance implementing Executive Order 13673, “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” (“EO 13673”), which President Obama signed on July 31, 2014. The final rule was published on Aug...