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OMB Approves Revised OFCCP Scheduling Letter

Client Alert | 1 min read | 10.03.14

Significant changes are just over the horizon for federal contractors and subcontractors, as OMB has approved the revised Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing proposed by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. As further explained in the linked alert, the revised Scheduling Letter will require contractors, at the outset of a compliance review, to submit to OFCCP individualized compensation data, personnel activity data broken out by each racial subgroup (rather than in two groupings, minorities and non-minorities), and additional materials to demonstrate compliance with the new Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act and section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act regulations that became effective earlier this year.


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