In Part 1, we reviewed data from the Department of Labor’s Enforcement Database, a wonderful resource that is responsible for more than a few online articles. Specifically, we noted that a few industries appear to be having issues keeping up with new emphases on enforcement and, frankly, may have a slight disregard for compliance in…
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In addition to the earlier discussion of Baldor Electric, which recently settled discrimination claims for $2,000,000, and Director Shiu’s press release quote, I would to point out something else that was very interesting that the OFCCP usually doesn’t do: State the total values of the contracts the offending contractor has with the government. In Baldor’s…
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Last Monday it was announced that Baldor Electric, a manufacturing company based in Fort Smith, AR, was settling systemic discrimination claims for $2,000,000. What I would like to focus on is a quote from the OFCCP’s press release about Baldor: “Discrimination is preventable when employers have certain processes in place and see to it that…
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Although we’d been working with data from the DOL’s Enforcement Database for a couple weeks, hats off to the consultants who beat us to publishing some of it. However, we’re going to take this data in a very different direction in the hopes we may really motivate contractors to get their ducks in a row. The different…
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“Being a federal contractor is a privilege.” –OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu, March 22, 2012 “We’re going to skip this year. We didn’t really hire anyone and we didn’t fire anyone, so we don’t need an AAP this year.” From time to time we hear this reasonable-sounding excuse for not performing the annual update to the…
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