The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit to require Google Inc. to provide requested compensation data and documents for the multinational company’s Mountain View headquarters as part of a routine compliance evaluation. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs asked the technology giant to submit information in September 2015 about its equal opportunity…
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Happy New Year! We start 2017 wrapping up our series on the Government Accountability Office (GAO)’s report of the OFCCP’s effectiveness in enforcing Affirmative Action laws and regulations. You may recall that the GAO in its recent report found the OFCCP to be exhibiting five areas of weakness. In the previous parts, we explored the…
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We started this series with an overview of the GAO’s findings as to the OFCCP’s effectiveness. Just to recap, here are the five areas of weakness found by the GAO: Weakness in OFCCP’s process for selecting contractors for Compliance Evaluations makes it challenging to know the extent to which Equal Opportunity Requirements are followed; OFCCP…
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The OFCCP Selection Process: An Area for Improvement What exactly are the weaknesses in the selection process? According to the GAO, “OFCCP’s contractor selection process in nonrandom and does not produce a generalizable sample of contractors for evaluation”. The result, according to the GAO: OFCCP cannot draw conclusions about noncompliance risk in the overall federal…
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The OFCCP often projects a larger than life presence in the consciousness of many federal contractors. How can it not? For FY 2016, the OFCCP had an annual operating budget of just over $105 million and was authorized 615 full-time equivalent staff positions. While its staffing decreased from 755 authorized FTE positions in FY 2015…
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