April 15, 2026
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Introducing CWC’s Standard Occupational Classification Crosswalk

CWC has created a user-friendly occupational crosswalk to help its member organizations map their job profiles to federal occupation classification systems. CWC’s crosswalk aims to help organizations in next year’s California Pay Reporting cycle, which eliminates the EEO-1 category in favor of the 2-digit SOC Major Group. The crosswalk is also helpful for mapping occupations to a corresponding 6-digit SOC...
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March 10, 2026
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC Supports OFCCP Proposal to Renew VEVRAA Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has filed comments supporting OFCCP’s plans to renew its recordkeeping and reporting requirements under VEVRAA. The agency wants to retain the recordkeeping, reporting, and enforcement requirements in regulations implementing Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act. These include the contents of the written affirmative action program;...
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February 12, 2026
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Category: Compensation

CWC Updates California Pay Data Reporting Guide For 2025 Reporting Season

CWC has updated its California Pay Data Reporting Guide. The updated guide covers the rules for filing the 2025 report that is due May 13, 2026. It also provides tips for a company to use when pulling the required data. Three data fields have been added for the 2025 reporting cycle: “Employment Type” — full-time, part-time, or intermittent; “Exemption Status” —...
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January 21, 2026
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Ninth Circuit Issues Mandate To Enforce Its Judgment Ordering Release Of Contractor EEO-1 Reports

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered the Labor Department to release EEO-1 Type 2 consolidated data submitted by objecting contractors for the years 2016 to 2020. The order stems from a 2022 Freedom of Information Act request by the Center for Investigative Reporting. In 2023, DOL disclosed data from contractors that did not object. The...
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October 30, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and DEI

CWC Recommends OFCCP Retain Form CC-305 On A Voluntary Basis

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has filed comments with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs urging it to consider alternatives to its proposed elimination of Form CC-305. Federal contractors use the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form to solicit the disability status of their job applicants and employees. OFCCP recently proposed eliminating the requirement for...
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October 29, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California Updates Pay Data Reporting Requirements

California recently amended its pay data reporting obligations, which require covered employers to submit employee and labor contractor pay data reports annually to the Civil Rights Department (CRD). Under the amendment, starting in 2026: (1) employers must store demographic data separately from personnel records, and (2) penalties for failing to file pay data reports will become mandatory if CRD requests them. The...
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August 12, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

DOL Ordered To Release EEO-1 Type 2 Contractor Data

A federal appeals court has ordered the Labor Department to release EEO-1 Type 2 consolidated data from the years 2016 to 2020 submitted by contractors that objected to a 2022 Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Center for Investigative Reporting. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected DOL’s argument that headcount and...
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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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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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