20-Minute Webinar: OFCCP Key Updates

On September 3, 2014 Fisher Phillips' attorneys Cheryl Behymer and Celia Joseph presented information about OFCCP Key Updates.

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OFCCP Director Patricia A. Shiu stated during her August 8, 2014 speech at the Industry Liaison National Conference in Washington, D.C. that, “[i]n just the past five months, much has happened in the [Federal] contractor space.”  These changes include: 

• New $10.10 minimum wage-Executive Order 13658 (signed 2/12/14)
  
  • Raised minimum wage contractors must pay employees to $10.10 
  • For new contracts beginning January 1, 2015 

• New Section 503 and VEVRAA regulations (eff. 3/24/14)

• Compensation: Non-retaliation and reporting-Executive Order 13665 (signed 4/8/14) 
  
  • Contractor cannot prohibit employees’ discussing or disclosing compensation
  • Contractors must collect and report summary compensation data
  • Proposed rules issued 8/8/14

• LGBT in the Workplace-Executive Order 13672 (signed 7/21/14)
  
  • Prohibits discrimination against applicants and employees based on sexual orientation or sexual identity
  • Requires affirmative action
  • Rules to follow 

• “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces”-Executive Order (signed 7/31/14)
  
  • Contractors must report labor law violations (over $500,000 in contracts)
  • Arbitration restrictions (contracts exceeding $1 million)
  • Rules to follow

• OFCCP Publishes FAQs on Employer-Employee Relationship (8/5/14)

• Compensation Data Collection and Reporting (published 8/8/14)
  
  • Proposed rule would require contractors to report summary compensation data as of December 31 each year
  • OFCCP would use to select audit locations