The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published its fiscal year 2020 Corporate Scheduling Announcement Lists (CSAL) identifying 2,450 federal contractor establishments (or functions) for an upcoming compliance evaluation, with audits scheduled to begin in late October. OFCCP’s posting for the first time now includes a separate scheduling list for construction contractors.

As a reminder, the online scheduling lists have replaced OFCCP’s former practice of mailing so-called “advance notice letters” to targeted establishments. Among other things, the lists indicate that an establishment has been flagged for one of the following types of audit, two of which (focused reviews of “promotion” and “accommodation” practices) do not yet have approved scheduling letters:

  • a standard compliance review;
  • a corporate management compliance evaluation (CMCE);
  • a compliance check; or
  • a focused review of the contractor’s promotion practices, accommodation practices, or compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

OFCCP’s current policy is to give targeted establishments 45 days advance notice prior to sending a formal scheduling letter, and thus the earliest that OFCCP would begin mailing scheduling letters to establishments listed on the CSALs would be the end of this October.

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