Government contractors and subcontractors have one more thing of which to be aware when it comes to accommodating disabled individuals. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), part of the U.S. Department of Labor, has created a new “Requesting a Reasonable Accommodation” pocket card.

According to the OFCCP’s official announcement, the card “helps

In its own words, the purpose of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is to: “enforce, for the benefit of job seekers and wage earners, the contractual promise of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity required of those who do business with the Federal government.”

The OFCCP is part of the Department of

Law Partners Maria Danaher, Editor of Employment Law Matters, and Mary Wright, Guest Blogger (both of Ogletree Deakins), offer up this month’s Employment Law Carnival.

Here is our A to Z list of legal pickings from around the ‘Net.

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Eric B. Meyer, The Employer Handbook, The Firefighter Afraid of

Well, at least Mount Rushmore is open again, along with the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon.  But for most of the Administrative Agencies related to labor and employment, things haven’t gotten much better since last week, and the deadlock in D.C. continues.  Here’s the latest information available:

Department of Labor (DOL)

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued a new directive entitled “Calculating Back Pay as a Part of Make-Whole Relief for Victims of Employment Discrimination” (“Directive”). The Directive addresses the two distinct models for calculating back pay relief – formula relief and individual relief – and

Originally published at Ogletree Deakins (http://www.ogletreedeakins.com) on April 15, 2013, and written by Leigh Nason and Dara DeHaven. An extended version of this article can be found here.

After a relatively quiet 2012, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) hit the ground running in 2013. In a second major announcement