Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.
Contractors in Crosshairs | Burdens of Enforcement | PPE, Not Employee
J. Edward Moreno: The US Department of Labor’s federal contractor watchdog will soon release a list of 400 companies it’s teed up for audit, checking their compliance with federal nondiscrimination laws.
The coming list of Corporate Scheduling Announcement Letters will prioritize industries that continued hiring amid the pandemic, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Director Jenny Yang said at an Institute for Workplace Equality event on Wednesday.
And, once the filing period ends for the OFCCP’s Affirmative Action Plan Portal, those who don’t certify or even register there will likely be prioritized for audits in the next CSAL list coming this fall, she said.
Doing neither “suggests there’s not much attention to compliance,” Yang said.
The audits are the first since the agency released two new directives earlier this year—the first two of the Biden administration.
One of those directives indicates the agency will more closely scrutinize pay equity audits, which contractors are required to do. The other proposes rolling back a previous directive that gave companies at least 45 days after the audit list is published to prepare. Under that proposal—which is not yet finalized—the OFCCP could send a scheduling letter to a contractor any time after CSAL list is published.
Those directives will make it hard to predict how these next rounds of audits...
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