The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has created a new website ostensibly designed to assist the agency in locating individuals against whom it alleges a federal contractor has discriminated. The new website was announced in conjunction with the agency’s 50th anniversary celebration held in Washington, D.C. on September 25, 2015.
According to OFCCP, its new Class Member Locator website has been created solely to help the agency find members of victim classes that have been identified under the terms of a Conciliation Agreement (CA) between a federal contractor and the OFCCP. The tool will directly impact only those contractors that have entered into a CA with the agency, and does not create any new obligations for contractors, nor should it prompt any specific actions by contractors.
Nonetheless, the Class Locator will now post contractor-specific information about conciliation agreements negotiated with the agency for everyone to see, not only the alleged class victims that OFCCP is looking for, but applicants, employees, former employees, policy-makers, plaintiffs’ lawyers, and competitors as well.
OFCCP’s new Class Member Locator can be accessed at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/cml/index.htm, and can also be found under the “Highlights” section of OFCCP’s main website at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp.