As we anticipated, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) closed out its 2022 fiscal year (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022) by announcing a flurry of major new financial settlements.
Indeed, the 13 new financial settlements announced since our last update in September double the total number of financial settlements announced by OFCCP in FY 2022 to 26. Despite the last-minute crush, however, the FY 2022 total trails the FY 2021 total of 38 and is well below the total of 56 financial settlements recorded in FY 2019, the last full year of the Trump Administration. As is the case with previous settlements announced by OFCCP, the latest batch has been posted on the agency’s online FOIA Library for Conciliation Agreements.
Of the 13 new settlements announced, four of them were “Early Resolution Conciliation Agreements” (ERCAs), while the remaining nine were standard conciliation agreement (CA) settlements. Seven alleged hiring discrimination, four alleged compensation discrimination, and the remaining two involved complaint investigations, one alleging disability discrimination for failure to reasonably accommodate and the other alleging disability discrimination based on a perceived disability.
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