October 16, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Highlights From CWC’s Tenth Annual Talent Acquisition Compliance Summit

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, held its tenth annual Talent Acquisition Compliance Summit October 3 and 4 in Reston, Va. The summit featured presentations, facilitated discussions, and small-group sessions covering legal, regulatory, and policy developments affecting recruitment and selection. Session topics included: “Ten Key Metrics for Evaluating TA Diversity and Compliance,” which examined ways to...
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October 16, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Highlights From CWC’s 2024 Compliance, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, held its 2024 Compliance, Diversity, and Inclusion (CD&I) Conference in Reston, Va., on October 2 and 3. Representatives from member and prospective member companies engaged with CWC staff during several sessions. Session topics included: "A New Risk Landscape for Compliance and Diversity Programs,” about some employers’ reshaping of their CD&I...
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September 23, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

New EEOC Report Takes Another Look at Diversity in the High Tech Workforce and Sector

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a report concluding that people of color are underrepresented in the high-tech workforce compared with their participation in the overall U.S. workforce. The report—High Tech, Low Inclusion: Diversity in the High Tech Workforce and Sector 2014-2022—concludes that people of color in high-tech jobs are better represented in the high-tech sector. The high-tech workforce refers...
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September 05, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

What’s the “Dismantle DEI Act,” and How Would It Impact Corporate DEI Efforts?

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has introduced legislation—the “Dismantle DEI Act” (S. 4516)—that would affect corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. S. 4516 would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act by adding a definition of “prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practice.” The bill would add “ethnicity” to the Civil Rights Act’s list of protected bases and...
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July 24, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC Urges OMB To Ameliorate Burden Imposed by OFCCP’s Construction Contractor Letter

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) has submitted comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in response to a request from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) for authorization to use an expanded version of the construction contractor scheduling letter and itemized listing that the agency uses to notify construction contractors of a compliance...
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July 09, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Financial Settlements in FY 2024 Q1-Q3

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced 16 formal settlements of enforcement actions against federal contractors during the first three quarters of fiscal year 2024, which spans the time period from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. A financial settlement does not indicate wrongdoing. The Center for Workforce Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership...
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June 27, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Updated Template for Good Faith Outreach Letter Available to CWC Members

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its template for good faith outreach letters. CWC members can use this template when contacting external sources for help in identifying diverse candidates that they can recruit for job openings in their companies. This template can help members that are government contractors demonstrate their efforts to comply with...
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June 26, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Last Minute Technical Issues Once Again Impact OFCCP Contractor Portal Certification

With the July 1 certification deadline fast approaching, technical issues are again bedeviling OFCCP’s online Contractor Portal and preventing some federal contractors and subcontractors from certifying compliance with the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. The “Add Establishment” button is no longer available for many contractors on the “My Company” page. Other contractors are unable to certify more...
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June 12, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Eleventh Circuit Halts Program Awarding Business Grants Only to Black Women

In another potential setback for corporate programs designed to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), a federal appeals court has told a lower court to halt a contest open only to Black women, pending a decision on whether it passes constitutional muster. A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit made the ruling June...
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May 16, 2024
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Category: AAP

OFCCP Files Formal Request With OMB To Extend Use of Contractor Portal

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on May 13, 2024, submitted a formal request to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew its contractor portal for three years. Since 2022, federal contractors and subcontractors have used the portal, an online tool, to certify their affirmative action programs (AAPs). OFCCP announced in December 2023...
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