President Trump’s fiscal year (FY) 2018 (October 1, 2017 – September 30, 2018) budget request to Congress includes a proposal to merge the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
We have now had an opportunity to analyze the so-called “budget justification statements” that the two agencies submitted in conjunction with the president’s FY 2018 budget request. Perhaps of most significance, the two statements declare the agencies will work together to merge OFCCP into the EEOC by the end of FY 2018, as the president has proposed.
Keep in mind, however, that an agency budget justification statement is intentionally drafted to reflect the president’s budget request, and as such does not carry any particular additional weight with Congress.
Copies of both OFCCP’s and the EEOC’s FY 2018 congressional budget justifications are available here and here, respectively.
Members of the Equal Employment Advisory Council (EEAC) can read more here.