Rabu, 04 Juli 2018

How OFCCP Audit Process Is Carried Out

By Amy Wallace


Today industrialization and urbanization have developed due to the advancement of technology and the precious job done by employees in firms. Sometimes employees tend to mistreat their clients, and this can eventually happen without the knowledge of authorities. This alarming issue has made the federal government create an OFCCP, which will help in protecting the rights of employees. This is an article about OFCCP audit.

This branch of the state does the activity of ensuring that the firms, contractors, and agencies do not perform any discrimination against their employees. The department protects workers, and it achieves this through audits. An inspection is done in the activities of a firm with the documents provided by the company. This inspection takes a progressive processes where the contractor and the department work hand in hand to accomplish.

A notice letter known as desk review is sent to the contractor to make him, or her understand the schedule of an audit. In the letter the requirements of this activity, guidelines and data required from the contractor are listed. The contractor, therefore, extracts and prepare the data fields required which include gender, race, color, disability status, supervisor, job rank title and payments reports. The Federal Contractors Compliance manual is a valuable tool which can be used to prepare and organize the data.

Before the process commences, it is very vital for an employer to ensure that he has correct, complete and consistent data fields. The best practice in managing the process is by being well prepared in advance once the contractor is issued with the receipt. The expert should also ensure that the payroll does not indicate any differences between men and women and minorities and non-minorities. Moreover, these activities significantly raise your level of preparedness.

The cooperation between this agency and the contractors determines the outcome of this process which is after 30 days since the notice was submitted. The information submitted by an employer is canvassed, and accompanying requests are made for more information about the employees. The expert is hence required to reply to all requests timely and gear up to address progressive questions that come up.

The assessment continues intensively as the federal agency checks if the contractor meets technical compliance and other overall affirmative action compliance requirements. If it notices signs of possible favoritism, an on-site reappraisal is conducted. This will involve first-hand fact-finding like conducting interviews with human resource and the concern staff members. If the company is found to be clean the process ends and resume after two years.

As years pass by the department has improved the process by issuing a Predetermination Notice and later consider the feedback of an employer before the final notice. The notice helps the contractor understand the concern of the agency vividly. If the expert is found to have engaged in unlawful discrimination, the department issues a notice of violation and seeks monetary damages for the violated of the alleged discrimination.

Last but not the least, the federal government agency achieves the objective of protecting workers from exploitation. It plays a significant role in ensuring that the contractors thus protecting the rights of an employee implement affirmative compliance action. It also ensures that all employees are equally represented in the firms.




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