Monday, December 12, 2011

Rule would require federal contractors to hire more disabled workers

Business Insurance

December 9, 2011 - 1:40pm


WASHINGTON—The Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance has proposed a new rule under which federal contractors and subcontractors would be required to set a goal of having 7% of their workforce be people with disabilities, it said Thursday.
According to the proposal, which was published Friday in the Federal Register, contractors and subcontractors would have to reach that percentage within each of their job groups rather than within its workforce as a whole.

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