Affirmative Action and Recent Trends within the OFCCP

This 90-minute training will discuss recent OFCCP enforcement trends and regulatory initiatives and review these against your current practices and procedures to ensure your company is audit ready. It will also cover the proactive steps that federal contractors can take to prepare for the impending rules.

Why Should You Attend:

In this session, we will review the recent OFCCP enforcement trends and regulatory initiatives. Attendees will learn about OFCCP latest regulatory developments such as the Agency’s new enforcement methods for analyzing compensation and its Active Case Enforcement initiative. We will discuss the new proposed affirmative action regulations for individuals with disabilities, the new wave of scheduling letters, as well as other actions that highlight OFCCP’s stepped-up enforcement as they work collaboratively and aggressively with the Solicitor’s Office.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Structural changes at DOL.
• The role of the Solicitor's Office with OFCCP.
• The 2006 Compensation standards no longer apply, so now what?
• More aggressive and collaborative enforcement activities.
• Active Case Management abandoned for the more focused Active Case Enforcement practice.
• The new proposed affirmative action rules issued for individuals with disabilities (Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act).
• How the cross-agency task force on compensation discrimination affects federal contractors.
• Statistical significance testing and the 4/5ths rule.
• Trends for Selection Procedures.
• What is validity research and its importance to your compliance program?
• OFCCP scheduling letter changes and requirements.
• Responding to audit letters.
• The OFCCP, Congress and TriCare.
• Should Medicare Part C and Part D providers be concerned?
• Audit readiness, putting an OFCCP review of internal procedures on your year-end agenda.

Who Will Benefit:

• Corporate stakeholders
• Risk management
• Compliance programs
• HR teams
• Recruiting teams