Government Contracts

Memo
24-197
Thursday, November 21, 2024

OFCCP’s latest Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL) puts some 2,000 federal contractor entities on notice that they’ve been flagged for an upcoming compliance audit.


Memo
24-183
Thursday, October 31, 2024

OFCCP recently received two FOIA requests for all EEO-1 Type 2 Reports held by the agency for the 2021 filing year. Contractors have until December 9 to file objections before OFCCP discloses the requested information.


Memo
24-184
Thursday, October 31, 2024

A federal court has temporarily blocked OFCCP from administrative enforcement of claims of discriminatory hiring reasoning that OFCCP’s administrative enforcement regime is likely unconstitutional.


Memo
24-182
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We’ve updated our primer that explains the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires contractors to pay the prevailing wage and fringe benefits to laborers and mechanics working on covered federal construction contracts.


Memo
24-181
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Solicitor of Labor has released a report summarizing its enforcement against coercive employment contracts, including those provisions that might chill workers in exercising their rights under employment laws DOL enforces.


Memo
24-172
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Department of Agriculture has finalized reforms of its procurement regulations. In a welcome development, the agency did not adopt controversial “blacklisting” provisions that it had twice previously proposed.


Memo
24-171
Thursday, October 10, 2024

OFCCP has received approval to begin collecting monthly reports from construction contractors detailing employee count and work hours by race/ethnicity, sex, and construction trade.


Memo
24-169
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

A janitorial contractor has filed a lawsuit challenging OFCCP’s administrative enforcement process, with an initial ruling expected by the end of the month.


Memo
24-167
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

The minimum wage rate on certain government contracts subject to coverage under separate Executive Orders issued by Presidents Obama and Biden will increase on January 1, 2025.


Memo
24-156
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Our updated template is designed to assist CWC’s federal contractor members with meeting their OFCCP compliance obligations.


Memo
24-153
Thursday, September 12, 2024

In a little-noticed but potentially significant policy development, President Biden has issued an Executive Order that establishes a precedent for awarding future government contracts based on union-friendly policies.


Memo
24-152
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

In the first such Early Resolution Conciliation Agreement that we’ve seen during the Biden Administration, the agency has agreed to a multi-year nationwide audit moratorium of the contractor’s establishments in return for an agreement by the contract


Memo
24-143
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

CWC has filed written comments with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in support of the agency’s decision to drop controversial blacklisting provisions from the proposed overhaul of its procurement regulations.


Memo
24-138
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Our comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget argue that it should not give permission to OFCCP to reinstate a burdensome form that OFCCP discontinued decades ago because it was marginally useful and put a strain on agency resources


Memo
24-133
Thursday, August 8, 2024

The Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS) has opened the annual filing system for the mandatory VETS-4212 Report. The submission deadline is September 30. Our memo provides the details.


Memo
24-131
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. The interagency entity that coordinates federal government procurement policy wants to reinstate a reporting requirement applicable to covered federal contractors obligating them to notify the government of executive compen


Memo
24-132
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

CWC is pleased to provide our members with an updated template to assist in meeting their employment service delivery system (ESDS) notice obligations required under OFCCP regulations.


Memo
24-129
Monday, August 5, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget has given OFCCP the go-ahead to begin using a new and expanded version of the Scheduling Letter used to notify federal construction contractors of a compliance audit.


Memo
24-128
Thursday, August 1, 2024

OFCCP’s new directive retains many of the components of the prior administration’s “early resolution conciliation” procedures. Whether it signals a change in OFCCP’s current enforcement philosophy remains to be seen.


Memo
24-126
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has re-proposed revisions to its procurement regulations first proposed two years ago, but this time absent any controversial blacklisting provisions. This is the second time USDA has prop


Memo
24-124
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Our comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget urge that agency to require OFCCP to make revisions to its proposed construction contractor scheduling letter before OMB gives approval to OFCCP to use it.


Memo
24-120
Thursday, July 18, 2024

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. OFCCP is asking OMB for approval to reinstate a burdensome reporting requirement on federal construction contractors that the agency originally abandoned in 1995 as putting a strain on OFCCP resources.


Memo
24-114
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

OFCCP has announced 16 formal settlements of enforcement actions against federal contractors during the first three quarters of the fiscal year. Our memo provides details.


Memo
24-110
Monday, July 1, 2024

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. OFCCP has asked OMB for approval to use a more detailed scheduling letter and itemized listing for compliance reviews of construction contractors. While the agency rejected our recommendations, its response provides some in


Memo
24-107
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

As the July 1 certification deadline approaches, technical issues have once again frustrated OFCCP’s Contractor Portal certification process.


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