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Category: Veterans

CWC Members Once Again Among DOL’s Annual “HIRE Vets Medallion Award” Winners

Several members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, were recipients of the 2023 HIRE Vets Medallion Award. This program of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recognizes companies that demonstrate exemplary efforts to recruit, employ, and retain military veterans and provide community and charitable services supporting the veteran community. The award was created in...
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Category: Reporting

VETS-4212 Filing Season Opens, Filing Deadline for Submitting Reports Is September 30, 2023

The Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) has announced the opening of the 2023 filing season for the annual VETS-4212 report that covered federal contractors must file. Completed reports are due September 30. The VETS-4212 provides a workforce snapshot by protected veteran status, as well as the contractor’s number of protected veteran new hires for the preceding 12-month...
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Category: Government Contracts

Making Your 503/VEVRAA AAPs “Available” To Remote Applicants and Employees

Longstanding regulations issued by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 503) and Section 4212 of the Vietnam-Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) require covered federal contractors to make their written 503/VEVRAA affirmative action programs (AAPs) available to employees and applicants upon request, and further require that the...
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Category: Veterans

USERRA Complaints Filed With DOL Declined Once Again in FY 2021

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has released enforcement statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2021 detailing the number of complaints filed with the agency by military service members under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). USERRA is the federal law that protects the employment and reemployment rights of employees who have been...
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Category: Veterans

2022 VETS-4212 Filing Season Underway, Filing Deadline Is September 30

The Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has opened the 2022 filing season for the annual VETS-4212 report. The VETS-4212 is a mandatory form that covered federal contractors and subcontractors are required to complete and file annually with DOL-VETS that provides a job category snapshot of the workforce by “protected veteran” status, as well as the number...
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

GAO Issues Report Concluding OFCCP Can Do a Better Job on Its VEVRAA Oversight

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the research arm of the U.S. Congress, has issued a report concluding that the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) isn’t doing enough to help federal contractors comply with their affirmative action obligations for veterans protected under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). The 45-page report, entitled “Equal Employment...

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