Federal Contractors and Their Employees Pay the Price for Lack of OFCCP Compliance Officer Training

For over four years we’ve been anxiously following the progress made (or rather lack of) by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) in response to a 2016 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Why do we care about what the GAO says about OFCCP?  For one, as the “congressional watchdog” responsible for providing objective…
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How Effective is the OFCCP? The GAO Answers – Part III

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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How Effective is the OFCCP? The GAO Answers – Part II

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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How Effective is the OFCCP? The GAO Answers – Part I

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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