July 01, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Proposes Eliminating Disability Self-Identification and Analysis Requirements

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is proposing to eliminate longstanding disability compliance requirements, including self-identification, utilization analyses, and applicant tracking. If approved, OFCCP’s two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) would modify agency regulations that implement the nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 503) and Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans...
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June 19, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC’s Guide to Minnesota State Contractor Equal Employment Opportunity Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated a resource that can help its members understand the equal employment opportunity obligations that Minnesota imposes on state contractors. These obligations are contained in documents published by the state’s Department of Human Rights (MDHR), including guidance, required forms, and templates for contractors submitting EEO compliance plans. Following...
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June 02, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump Proposes Eliminating OFCCP

President Trump’s FY 2026 budget request proposes abolishing the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Under this proposal, OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) would shift to the Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS), and OFCCP’s enforcement of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act would shift to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The proposed...
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May 27, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Subpoena Enforcement Suggests Focus on Anti-American Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking to enforce a subpoena against Mauser Packaging Solutions in connection with a Commissioner’s charge alleging unlawful steering and discrimination against American workers. The EEOC asserts that Mauser has not complied with its information requests seeking an electronic database of job candidates and incumbent employees at eight facilities over four years, including demographic, personnel, and contact...
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January 15, 2025
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Category: Compensation

Massachusetts Publishes Filing Details for February 1st EEO-1 Reporting Requirement

Massachusetts has issued FAQs explaining employers’ obligation to report workforce data under the state’s new Salary Range Transparency Act. Under the law, employers with 100 or more employees in Massachusetts must submit a copy of their most recent EEO-1 Report to the state annually by February 1 (or the next business day). This year they will be due February 3. The FAQs explain...
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December 19, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Federal Appeals Court Vacates Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rules

A federal appeals court has vacated the Nasdaq stock market’s rule requiring Nasdaq-listed companies to disclose diversity data for their boards of directors. In 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved Nasdaq’s proposal to require most Nasdaq-listed companies to have at least one female and one minority/LGBTQ board member or explain their lack of diversity. The rule also required covered companies to...
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December 03, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

OFCCP Construction Contractor Utilization Report Due April 2025 (and Every Month Thereafter)

Federal construction contractors and subcontractors must begin filing their monthly CC-257 forms April 15, 2025, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced. Employers that have a federal construction contract or subcontract, or a contract in which federal funds pay for construction work worth more than $10,000, must submit a Monthly Employment Utilization Report (CC-257) to OFCCP on...
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November 07, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Religious Groups Seek To Block FCC Demographic Data Collection Similar to EEO-1 Report

A group of religious broadcasters has asked a federal appeals court to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters. The court’s ruling could have implications for similar data collections like the EEO-1 Report. Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to resume collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters, a practice...
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October 31, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

New FOIA Requests Seek Contractor EEO-1 Data From 2021

OFCCP will release the EEO-1 Type 2 Reports for thousands of contractors for the 2021 filing year unless the contractors file a written objection with OFCCP by December 9, the agency announced October 29, 2023. The release will occur in response to Freedom of Information Act requests from the University of Utah and a non-profit organization named As You Sow. The...
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October 21, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Proposes a New Rule for Filers Seeking Exemption From EEO Reporting Requirements

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has proposed revising its rules regarding hardship exemptions to EEO reporting requirements. The proposed rule would delegate the Commission’s authority to decide hardship exemption applications to the agency’s chief data officer. It also would establish a procedure for applying for exemptions and provide examples of criteria for granting exemptions. Almost all covered employers and federal...
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