The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced late last week that federal contractors who have yet to certify via the agency’s online Affirmative Action Program Verification Interface (AAP-VI) Contractor Portal, but who had pending Help Desk tickets as of the June 30, 2022, filing deadline, are deemed to have met the deadline. The agency’s announcement also appears to confirm that the AAP-VI Portal remains open, and will remain open at least until September 1, 2022.
OFCCP’s announcement is good news for those many contractors who have been trying in good faith to comply, but were unable to meet the June 30 certification deadline because of factors such as major technical issues, last minute policy changes, and tweaks to the AAP-VI Portal itself. As long as the contractor put in a request for assistance with the Help Desk by the June 30 deadline, OFCCP now states it “will consider those contractors that requested assistance from OFCCP on or before June 30, 2022, but have not yet completed registration or certification because of a pending request for assistance, to have met the June 30 deadline.”
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.