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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July 01, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Proposes Rescinding Regulations Interpreting E.O. 11246

The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has formally proposed rescinding its regulations that implemented and interpreted Executive Order 11246. President Trump rescinded that order when he signed E.O. 14173, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity. Under the proposed rule, the following provisions would be removed from Title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations: Obligations of Contractors and Subcontractors...
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July 01, 2025
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Category: AAP

OFCCP Seeks Confirmation Contractors Have “Wound Down” E.O. 11246 AAPs

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has reopened its contractor portal and is asking federal contractors to voluntarily submit confirmation that they have wound down their Executive Order 11246 affirmative action programs (AAPs). OFCCP Director Catherine Eschbach issued a letter to federal contractors requesting them to voluntarily upload — by September 25, 2025 — information regarding their efforts to wind down...
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June 25, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Seeks OMB Permission To Rescind E.O. 11246 Regulations

The White House Office of Management and Budget is reviewing a proposed rule that would rescind the OFCCP regulations implementing Executive Order 11246. Issued in 1965, E.O. 11246, as amended, prohibited federal contractors from discriminating in employment on the basis of race and sex, among other characteristics, and required contractors to take affirmative action to prevent such discrimination. President Trump revoked E.O....
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June 25, 2025
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

OFCCP Extends Audit Moratorium for Veterans Affairs Health Benefits Program Providers

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has extended, for two years, its audit scheduling moratorium for specified health care entities that provide supplies and services to participants in the Veterans Affairs Health Benefits Program (VAHBP). OFCCP extended the scheduling moratorium through May 7, 2027, via Directive 2021-01 Revision 2, Extending the Scheduling Moratorium for Veterans Affairs Health Benefits Program (VAHBP)...
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June 10, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Trump Seeks Significant Cuts to FY26 Budget of Workplace Regulators

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 would eliminate the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and substantially cut funding for most agencies that regulate the workforce. The President submitted his budget request to Congress May 30. DOL’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) would assume OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA,...
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June 02, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump Proposes Eliminating OFCCP

President Trump’s FY 2026 budget request proposes abolishing the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Under this proposal, OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) would shift to the Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS), and OFCCP’s enforcement of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act would shift to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The proposed...
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April 29, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Updated Template for Good Faith Outreach Letter To Reflect Rescission of Executive Order 11246

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has issued an updated template for good faith outreach letters. CWC members can use this template when drafting good faith outreach letters to organizations that can help identify qualified veterans and persons with disabilities for their open job positions. President Trump's Executive Order 14173 rescinded the authority for developing AAPs...
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April 23, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Updated Disability and Veterans AAP Narrative Template Now Available on CWC Website

An updated narrative template for reporting on affirmative action programs for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities is available from the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association. President Trump's Executive Order 14173 rescinded the authority for developing AAPs for women and minorities under E.O. 11246 but did not change the recordkeeping, compliance, and reporting requirements for...
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April 02, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC’s Guide for “Winding Down” Executive Order 11246 Compliance Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has issued a guide to help federal contractors wind down the affirmative action programs they implemented to comply with the now-rescinded Executive Order 11246. The guide follows a March 24 announcement from OFCCP Director Catherine Eschbach that OFCCP will use all enforcement options to ensure that federal contractors have wound...
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