OFCCP Updates Annual Hiring Benchmark and New Benchmark Resources
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) enforces VEVRAA (the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act. VEVRAA prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against protected veterans and requires the employer to take affirmative action to recruit, hire, promote, and retain these individuals. To measure our progress (as a Federal Contractor), VEVRAA requires contractors to establish a hiring benchmark every year to measure our progress toward achieving equal employment opportunity for protected veterans . We can adopt the national hiring benchmark or setting an individualized using a five factor method. Our companies choose to use the national hiring benchmark. Effective March 31, 2024, the new benchmark is 5.2% Additionally, OFCCP released a new course in the Contractor Compliance Institute (CCI) on the VEVRAA hiring benchmark. This 20-minute course covers the purpose of th...