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Federal contractors’ hiring goal for veterans took effect March 24

March 31, 2014 By ei2admin

Effective March 24, 2014, contractors required by the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) to develop a written affirmative action program (AAP) must also establish a hiring benchmark for protected veterans each year or adopt the national benchmark provided by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).  Federal contractors use the VEVRAA Benchmark Database when establishing a hiring benchmark for protected veterans as required by 41 CFR 60-300.45.

Contractors must compare the percentage of employees who are protected veterans in each of their establishments to the hiring benchmark set for that establishment.  Contractors should use the result of this comparison when assessing the effectiveness of their veteran outreach and recruitment efforts.

This VEVRAA Benchmark Database provides additional information regarding the establishment of hiring benchmarks and easy access to the national and State data that may be needed to establish these benchmarks.

OFCCP has now posted the Benchmark Database required by the new regulations implementing the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA).   The database includes the annual national percentage of veterans in the civilian labor force for contractors that choose to use this number as their benchmark. It also includes data on the percentage of veterans in the labor force in each State and the number of veterans who participate in each State’s employment service, for use by those contractors choosing to develop an individualized benchmark.

To help contractors use this database, OFCCP provides detailed user instructions and examples illustrating how a contractor could use the database to set an individualized VEVRAA benchmark.

You can access the VEVRAA Benchmark Database through OFCCP’s Web site at http://www.dol-esa.gov/errd/VEVRAA.jsp.

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: affirmative action, hiring goals, OFCCP, veteran, veterans, VEVRAA

OFCCP director says contractors won’t be violated for missing goals

December 24, 2013 By ei2admin

Republican lawmakers charged that federal contractor benchmark hiring goals for veterans and the disabled burden contractors and amount to quotas, at a Dec. 4, 2013 House Education and Workforce subcommittee on workforce protections hearing.

But Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Director Patricia Shiu told the panel that they are simply goals and contractors can’t be penalized if they don’t meet them as long as they show evidence of trying.

The Labor Department finalized two rules Aug. 27.  They include a new 7 percent hiring goal for people with disabilities and an benchmarking requirement for veteran hiring.  Both rules, which apply to contractors and subcontractors with 50 employees and $50,000 in government contracts, go into effect Feb. 27, 2014.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/ofccp-director-says-contractors-wont-be-violated-missing-goals/2013-12-05

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: DOL, hiring goals, Labor Dept., OFCCP, veterans

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