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The Department of Labor just gave the green light for federal contractor audits and investigations involving disability and veteran bias to resume immediately. While affirmative action obligations based on race, sex, and other EO 11246 categories remain nullified under a January executive order from President Trump, the agency’s J uly 2 announcement means it is back in business for enforcing Section 503 ( disability ) and VEVRAA ( protected veterans ) . Here’s what your business needs to know – and do. What Just Happened? On July 2, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer issued a new directive ( Secretary’s Order 08-2025 ) that lifts the pause on OFCCP’s enforcement of Section 503 and VEVRAA obligations. This action reverses the temporary hold put in place in January by the Acting Secretary of Labor, Vincent Micone, on January 24 in  Order 03-2025 . Key actions from Order 08-2025: OFCCP may now resume complaint investigations involving veterans and individuals with disabilities. An...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is slated to publish, on July 7, 2025, an information collection request seeking comments relating to complaints involving employment discrimination by federal contractors or subcontractors. Quick Hits OFCCP is seeking comments on changes to the complaint form for employment discrimination by federal contractors and subcontractors. The proposed changes are requested to update the complaint form to comport with changes brought by Executive Order 14173. OFCCP is seeking approval to revise the Complaint of Employment Discrimination Involving a Federal Contractor or Subcontractor form (CC-4) and the Pre-Complaint Inquiry for Employment Discrimination Involving a Federal Contractor or Subcontractor form (CC-390 ) to remove items related to Executive Order (EO) 11246 . Because of  EO 14173 , applicants and employees of federal contractors and subcontractors, authorized representatives, or third p...

They’ve all but shut the door, turned off the lights, and put up the “closed” sign.  On July 2, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer  lifted the pause  on investigations and enforcement of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act. Now that the pause is lifted, the OFCCP has announced that it will close all pending compliance evaluations. Background Days after  President Trump rescinded Executive Order 11246  in January, Vincent Micone, then-Acting Secretary of Labor,  ordered the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to cease its enforcement activity  related to Section 503 and VEVRAA. The OFCCP then notified contractors who had open compliance evaluations that the portions relating to Executive Order 11246 were closed and that the components subject to Section 503 and VEVRAA were on hold pending further guidance. Secretary’s Order 08-2025 Secretary Chavez-DeRemer’s Order 08-2025 lifts t...