FOLLOWING UP ON OFCCPs’ PROPOSED RULES RECOMMENDING BENCHMARKS FOR HIRING VETERANS

DCI Consulting
by Art Gutman Ph.D., Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
May 16, 2011

Under a proposed rule by the OFCCP on April 26, 2011 federal contractors would be required for the first time to establish annual benchmarks for hiring veterans. In an interview on April 28, 2011, DCI president David Cohen told SHRM Online that he expects that the OFCCP would use referral and hiring ratios as evidence of discrimination in hiring by contractors. According to Cohen, the benchmarks would be expressed as the percentage of total hires who are protected veterans, and would apply to contractors with 50 or more employees and contracts of $100,000 or more (under 60-300). The basis for suit would be the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA), as amended, which requires each federal contractor with a federal contract of $100,000 or more to take affirmative action to hire and advance in employment qualified Armed Forces Service Medal veterans, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans and other protected veterans.

Full Blog Post: http://ofccp.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-up-on-ofccps-proposed-rules.html

Register for AAAA Webinar on OFCCP Enforcement

AAAA 2011 WEBINAR SERIES

OFCCP 2011 Enforcement Update

SCHEDULED TO OCCUR THURSDAY, April 28, 2011

The fourth installment of the 2011 Webinar Series is scheduled for Thursday, April 28, 2011 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT. During this sixty-minute presentation, Fred Satterwhite of DCI Consulting Group will focus on OFCCP's new enforcement and regulatory agenda. This webinar will inform you about OFCCP's current enforcement activities, as well as recent and potential changes that directly impact how affirmative action compliance and equal employment opportunity are implemented and ensured within your workforce. For more details and to register, go to: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventId=956978. The registration fee covers one license (one computer/telephone number) for unlimited participants. Invite your colleagues and students to join the discussion. For more information about PDTI, Webinars or other AAAA programs, please call us toll-free at 1-800-252-8952 or visit http://www.affirmativeaction.org/. Thank you for your continued support!

OFCCP PLANS TO RESCIND COMPENSATION STANDARDS

DCI Consulting
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by David Cohen, President, DCI Consulting Group

During the recent National ILG Conference in Las Vegas, OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu announced that the administration would be rescinding the compensation standards and guidelines. The compensation standards and guidelines were released under the Bush Administration on June 16th 2006. For the first time, these standards codified and published OFCCP’s protocol for enforcing systemic compensation discrimination. This published guidance became an invaluable tool for federal contractors because it gave contractors insight into how OFCCP would monitor compliance efforts and identify the tools and understanding needed to proactively recognize and fix potential problem areas. With this knowledge, many contractors took advantage of the ability to “get ahead of the game” by being proactive and conducting analyses to identify “problems” before or in anticipation of an OFCCP compliance evaluation. In addition, it gave the agency’s compliance officers a set of objective standards that function as a roadmap for enforcement; these standards assured that both contractors and the agency were using the same playbook.

Full Blog Post: http://ofccp.blogspot.com/