Key Takeaways Protected veteran hiring is below the benchmark. RAND found that protected veterans were 2.4 percent of new hires at S&P 500 federal contractor establishments in the 2025 VETS-4212 filing cycle. The national VEVRAA hiring benchmark was 5.1 percent....
Key Takeaways GAO report GAO-26-107937, dated September 29, 2026, found that DOL has reduced its Section 503 oversight of federal contractors since January 2025. From fiscal years 2017 through 2025, 532 OFCCP audits found Section 503 violations. OFCCP’s...
Key Takeaways OFCCP’s Final Rule on Section 503 is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on August 21, 2026. The rule ends the requirement that federal contractors invite applicants and employees to self-identify as individuals with disabilities. It...
Key Takeaways On August 11, 2026, the EEOC held a public hearing on its proposal to rescind EEO-1 through EEO-6 reporting and related recordkeeping under 29 CFR Part 1602. Twenty-two witnesses testified over roughly two and a half hours; no vote or decision was made...
Key Takeaways The annual VETS-4212 reporting cycle runs from August 1 through September 30, requiring covered federal contractors and subcontractors holding a single contract valued at $200,000 or more (pursuant to recent FAR inflationary adjustments) to submit...
Key Takeaways On July 21, 2026, the EEOC voted to issue a formal NPRM proposing to rescind EEO-1 through EEO-6 reporting and related recordkeeping requirements. This is a proposed rule, not a final rule; a 30-day public comment period and an August 11, 2026 public...
Key Takeaways OIRA approved OFCCP’s Section 503 information collection without change on July 16, 2026, extending Form CC-305’s approval through July 31, 2029. Form CC-305 is the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability form federal contractors use...
Key Takeaways On June 29, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its 1979 interpretive guidelines on voluntary affirmative action under Title VII (29 C.F.R. Part 1608), along with the related Compliance Manual Section 607. The...
Key Takeaways On June 24, 2026, OIRA approved a three-year extension of the EEOC’s information collection authority under the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP), keeping the requirement to collect and maintain applicant race, ethnicity,...
Key Takeaways On June 4, 2026, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 26-1283, “Protections Regarding Seizures of Identification Documents,” into law. Effective June 3, 2026, the law prohibits employers from confiscating workers’...
