I am very excited to be teaming with DirectEmployers, Bill Warren and Candee Chambers, DE’s new Vice President of Compliance & Partnerships, and to be writing my first column for you. This November column is the first of 8 columns on OFCCP compliance I will write over the next year. Each quarter, I will write two columns and also present a webinar to DE Members on an OFCCP compliance topic. If you have ideas/issues you would like me to address in a column or in an upcoming Webinar, please let Candee know. I will write a December column, for example, and then host a 90-minute webinar on January 22, 2014 beginning at 2:00 p.m. EST (MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!)
FOCUS: My columns and the webinars will focus on popular OFCCP compliance problems and practical solutions to them. I will often offer a “Practice Tip.” My writing will be “down to earth” and specific. I will tell you to turn right, turn left, or to drive straight ahead. Candee and I will tailor my topics to supplement the OFCCP compliance services DirectEmployers Association daily supplies its members.
I want to start my relationship with you by clearing up an OFCCP compliance issue I see currently engulfed in confusion. Erroneous advice I see unfolding in ILG meetings and in Internet blogs across the country is also subsidizing the inherent complexity of OFCCP’s regulations. The compliance issue of interest today concerns WHEN a federal contractor MAY implement OFCCP’s new section 503 regulations…
THIS COLUMN IS MEANT TO ASSIST IN A GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE CURRENT LAW AND PRACTICE RELATING TO OFCCP. IT IS NOT TO BE REGARDED AS LEGAL ADVICE. COMPANIES OR INDIVIDUALS WITH PARTICULAR QUESTIONS SHOULD SEEK ADVICE OF COUNSEL.
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