The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) recently announced it would be conducting focused reviews on promotions and accommodations.  To help contractors understand how these focused reviews will be conducted and provide compliance assistance to help contractors understand and meet their equal employment opportunity obligations, OFCCP launched new landing pages for Promotions Focused Reviews and Accommodations Focused Reviews.

In promotions focused reviews, OFCCP will review contractor data, policies, and procedures related to promotions to ensure that qualified individuals are not kept from rising to higher positions in their workplaces based on unlawful discrimination.  

Accommodations focused reviews will look at disability and religious accommodations to ensure that contractors are not discriminating against employees and applicants through denials of accommodation requests, and to provide technical assistance and other guidance to contractors so they are better able to provide accommodations to their workforce and applicants.