Comments Filed with DOL-VETS In Support of VETS-4212 Extension

NT Lakis, on behalf of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), has filed written comments with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS), offering our support for that agency’s announced intent to seek a three-year extension of the Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report (VETS-4212). The VETS-4212 is a mandatory report that covered federal contractors must file annually with DOL-VETS. Pursuant to the federal Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), DOL-VETS is required to get approval on a periodic basis from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend a current paperwork requirement.

The VETS-4212 is designed to collect a “snapshot” profile of a company’s workforce by protected veteran status, location, and the job categories used in the Employer Information Report (“EEO-1”), a separate annual report that covered employers file with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In addition to workforce snapshot data, the VETS-4212 requires contractors to report the number of protected veteran new hires for the preceding 12-month period.

Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.