Attention federal contractors: Effective January 30, 2022 the minimum wage for employees working on federal contracts will increase to $15 per hour. Federal contractors must have the new minimum wage implemented into new contracts by March 30, 2022. For existing contracts, the higher wage must be implemented when parties exercise their option to extend such contracts. FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Issues an Executive Order to Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 for Federa

OFCCP has announced that the new VEVRAA hiring benchmark will be 5.6%, effective March 31, 2021. As a reminder, the hiring benchmark is the percentage of total hires who are protected veterans that the contractor seeks to hire in the next AAP year.

Attention employers: The EEOC has announced that EEO-1 data collection will begin on Monday, April 26, 2021. Employers should be prepared to submit Component 1 data for 2019 and 2020. The deadline to submit this data is July 19, 2021. See the EEOC website ( https://EEOCdata.org ) for more information, or call your Arbor consultant for help with your data.

The previous Director of the OFCCP was very interested in setting up a system to verify that all federal contractors/subcontractors had prepared the required Affirmative Action Plans (AAP) in a timely manner. Although he was not able to see this effort come to fruition during his term, it does not appear that the Biden Administration has given up the effort. A new landing page for the Affirmative Action Plan Verification Interface (AAVI) has just appeared on the OFCCP websit

New Executive Order for Government Contractors, Subcontractors and Federal Financial Assistance Recipients EO 13950 Seeks to Regulate Diversity Training Just as many employers are rolling out new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) training initiatives, the President signed a new Executive Order, on September 22, 2020, seeking to regulate such efforts for federal contractors, subcontractors, grant recipients and those receiving federal financial assistance (which would i