As anticipated EEOC has announced the opening of the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 data collection portal today.  The deadline for submission will be Monday, July 19, 2021.  As a reminder, employers are to submit only Component 1 (race and gender) data for these two years.  There is currently no obligation for pay data (Component 2) submissions. EEOC mailed out notification letters to contact persons and addresses on file.  EEOC states eligible employers that have…

OFCCP has updated the annual veteran benchmark for 2021.  The new benchmark is now set at 5.6%.  This is down 0.1% from last year’s mark of 5.7%.  The OFCCP relies on the annual national percentage of veterans in the civilian labor force to set the benchmark. As a reminder, the benchmark is the percentage of total hires who are protected veterans that the contractor seeks to hire in the following AAP year. …

EEOC has finally announced the opening date for the collection of 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 data.  The portal is slated to open April 26 and employers will have until July 19, 2021 to file both years reports.  The agency has extended the duration of the time to file in recognition of the continuing differential impacts of the pandemic on workplaces nationwide and the requirement to submit two years of EEO-1 data, the EEOC is extending…

On Monday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Marty Walsh as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor under President Biden.  Secretary Walsh will, of course, also be newly-appointed OFCCP Director Jenny Yang’s new boss.  While we have anticipated a change in OFCCP direction under Director Yang, the changes, thus far, have been limited, perhaps because she was waiting for Labor Secretary’s confirmation. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Director Yang has recently confirmed that pay…

In an announcement (EEOCdata.org) that flew under the radar and has, yet, to appear on the EEO-1 reporting webpage, or EEOC’s home page, EEOC now says the filing deadline will be in sometime in July.  When in July?  EEOC had not said: The EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open at the end of April 2021 and close in July 2021. The exact closing date will be posted when the data collection launches. Employers…

As a follow up to the Inauguration Day recession of former President Trump’s Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping Executive Order, the Biden Administration has issued a White House Diversity memo providing further direction on rolling back any remaining tenants of Executive Order 13950. The memo, dated March 2, 2021, was published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and provides detailed instructions for agencies to ensure the complete rollback of agency actions that…

OFCCP has just announced it has revised its Supply and Service FY 2020 audit scheduling list by removing all establishments selected to receive focused reviews and compliance checks. An amended Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL)  and amended methodology  have been posted on the agency website. The evaluations that will proceed include establishment-based compliance reviews, CMCE reviews, FAAP reviews and university compliance reviews. This is a breaking story.  We will provide an update with more…