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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

DOL Formally Asks OMB To Extend VETS-4212 Form for Three More Years, Without Change

The Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has formally requested permission from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to continue using the current version of the VETS-4212 form for another three years. The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, supports DOL-VETS’ request. Covered federal contractors must file a VETS-4212 form annually...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Releases Data Dashboard of “Component 2” Pay Data to Public

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has made available to the public a new Data Dashboard based on data that the agency collected from employers for calendar years 2017 and 2018. The dashboard allows users to review and sort aggregate EEO-1 Component 2 pay band data. EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows said the release of the Component 2 aggregated data can illuminate...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

OFCCP To Reinstate Burdensome Reporting Requirement for Construction Contractors

The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has announced its intent to reinstate a revised version of its long-discontinued Form CC-257. If implemented, the revised Monthly Employment Utilization Report will require covered federal construction contractors and subcontractors to report data each month on headcount and work hours by race, ethnicity, sex, and construction trade. OFCCP stopped...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Announces Filing Season for 2023 EEO-1s Will Run From April 30 to June 4

The filing period for the mandatory Component 1 Employer Information (EEO-1) Reports covering 2023 employment data will open April 30, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced. Reports will be due five weeks later, on June 4, 2024. Filing specifics have not yet been released, but we think it is safe to say that filers will be able...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Disclosure of Federal Contractor EEO-1 Reports on Hold After DOL Appeals

A federal court has temporarily stayed its order from December 2023 forcing the Department of Labor (DOL) to release EEO-1 reports from federal contractors that objected to the data’s release. The case arose from a news organization’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on February 16, 2024, put on hold...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The new version covers the rules for filing 2023 calendar year data, which must be submitted to California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) by May 8, 2024. CWC’s guide provides tips on identifying the data that must be...
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Category: Comment Letter

CWC’s Comments to OFCCP Urge Burden-Easing Changes to Contractor Portal

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has filed written comments with the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) urging it to reduce the compliance burden posed by its contractor portal. CWC’s comments responded to the agency’s announced intent to seek  approval from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Includes Revised Guidance, Data Specifications

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has opened California’s mandated Pay Data Reporting cycle for calendar year 2023. New requirements are likely to increase the burden on covered employers. They still must report the total number of workers by race, ethnicity, sex, pay band, and federal EEO-1 job category, but within that total, employers now also must identify three additional data...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC Comments to DOL Support Extension of VETS-4212 Report, Without Change

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) supports the three-year extension of the Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report (VETS-4212) proposed by the U.S. Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS). Covered federal contractors must file the VETS-4212 report annually with DOL-VETS. It provides a snapshot of a contractor’s workforce broken down by protected veteran status, location, and job category. Contractors...
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Updated Summary of Federal EEO/AA Recordkeeping Requirements Now Available Online

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its comprehensive summary of federal EEO/AA recordkeeping requirements. Summary of Recordkeeping Requirements: Federal Fair Employment and Affirmative Action Laws incorporates changes that have occurred since 2017. The new summary covers the FEP/AA recordkeeping requirements imposed under 12 federal statutes, including the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act,...

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