The President yesterday unveiled his proposed FY 2016 budget for Congressional review and approval, including the OFCCP’s proposed budget. (FY 2016 will commence on October 1, 2015).
OFCCP has identified five strategic goals for FY 2016:
- “…to identify and address systemic pay discrimination to help narrow the persistent pay gap based on sex and race;”
- “…focus on the elimination of gender, racial and ethnicity-based discrimination in the construction trades;”
- “…perform critical upgrades of its obsolete case management system;”
- “…add a focus on ensuring employees and contractors have the information they need for implementing President Obama’s historic Executive Order extending nondiscrimination protections to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) employees of, and job applicants to, federal contractors;” and … Read more.
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