News
Federal Announcements and Updates
As changes are made to the employment requirements under federal contracts by actions of the administration or congress, Pillar updates its material in a timely fashion. The changes (or possible changes being considered) for the current year are reflected below with some commentary on each. A full discussion of each subject is contained in Pillar’s Employment Requirements of Federal Contractors and Subcontractors.
Bias Training Limitations
Executive Order 13950 (September 22, 2020) prohibits contractors from presenting “any workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating.”
2021 Executive Order Minimum Wage Rate
Increased Statutory Acquisition Thresholds
On July 2, 2020, the acquisition councils published a final rule incorporating into the FAR the statutory changes (by the NDAAs for 2018, 2019) for the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) and Micro-Purchase Threshold (MPT).
2020 SCA H&W Benefit Rate / Reduced Rate for Contracts with Paid Sick Leave
OFCCP Early Reconciliation Procedures – Initial Results
On June 29, 2020, the OFCCP announced impressive results from the first year and a half of ERCAs (Early Resolution Conciliation Agreements) reached through the process set out in Directive 2019-02, see Pillar’s Blog.
Form EEO-1 Summary Compensation Data, Part IV
On June 9, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed the EEOC’s appeal of a previous District Court Order (ordering collection of Component 2 data) as “moot” after the District Court had previously declared the Component 2 data collection complete (February 10, 2020) – in other words there was no more controversy to decide.