The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has submitted a formal request to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to use a more detailed scheduling letter and itemized listing to notify federal construction contractors of a compliance audit. OFCCP unveiled its proposal for a new scheduling letter back in March. The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, filed written comments urging the agency to reconsider its proposal to require construction contractors to produce a full array of sensitive and confidential employment information in the initial desk audit submission. Nevertheless, the new version of the proposal that OFCCP submitted to OMB is virtually identical to the proposal that it released in March. Indeed, the proposed scheduling letter seems consistent with the agency’s greater scrutiny of construction contractors in the wake of the massive infrastructure bill that Congress approved in 2021.
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