Compliance Stuff

On August 1, 2024, the U.S Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published   new promising practices   encouraging the use of apprenticeship programs to attract and retain veterans protected by the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended (VEVRAA). The promising practices help contractors understand how to implement apprenticeship programs that can benefit contractors and protected veterans. They also discuss how apprenticeship programs can support contractors’ efforts to promote equal employment opportunity. Under VEVRAA, federal contractors and subcontractors are prohibited from engaging in discrimination in employment practices against veterans and are required to provide equal employment opportunity in recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining protected veterans.   Earlier this year, OFCCP updated its  VEVRAA webpage . This webpage includes links to videos highlighting the importance of...

  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...