OFCCP Releases New VEVRAA Resources
The U.S Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) enforces the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended (VEVRAA). Under VEVRAA, federal contractors and subcontractors are prohibited from engaging in discrimination in employment practices against veterans and required to provide equal employment opportunity in recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining protected veterans. OFCCP continues to release new resources to help contractors understand their obligations under VEVRAA. Published today is a new example illustrating the use of the VEVRAA national benchmark, which is a yardstick contractors use to measure their progress toward achieving equal employment opportunity for protected veterans. OFCCP also published an updated VEVRAA Affirmative Action Program (AAP) sample . The update includes additional information for contractors on how to use the hiring benchmark effectively to monitor their veteran hiri...