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Bill Osterndorf President and Founder, HR Analytical Services
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Ask the Experts is an online forum where federal contractors and subcontractors are invited to submit questions to industry experts related to OFCCP compliance, affirmative action planning, and equal employment opportunity. Simply register your company on LocalJobNetwork.com to submit a question. Questions and answers will occasionally be featured in The OFCCP Digest for the benefit of all readers.
Question: Federal Contractor and Temp Agency Relationships
In contracting with a temp agency, what are a federal contractor’s responsibilities in relation to OFCCP?
The regulations specifically address this very common concern. In short, the temp agency is like an extension of the company for compliance purposes. Using a third party staffing agency does not exempt a company from the regulations enforced by OFCCP (Sec. 60-3.10). Thus, all the requirements under the regulations still apply, such as posting, listing, outreach, compliant selection procedures, and adverse impact analyses. The text of the regulation is below.
Sec. 60-3.10 Employment agencies and employment services.
A. Where selection procedures are devised by agency. An employment agency, including private employment agencies and State employment agencies, which agrees to a request by an employer or labor organization to devise and utilize a selection procedure should follow the standards in these guidelines for determining adverse impact. If adverse impact exists the agency should comply with these guidelines. An employment agency is not relieved of its obligation herein because the user did not request such validation or has requested the use of some lesser standard of validation than is provided in these guidelines. The use of an employment agency does not relieve an employer or labor organization or other user of its responsibilities under Federal law to provide equal employment opportunity or its obligations as a user under these guidelines.
B. Where selection procedures are devised elsewhere. Where an employment agency or service is requested to administer a selection procedure which has been devised elsewhere and to make referrals pursuant to the results, the employment agency or service should maintain and have available evidence of the impact of the selection and referral procedures which it administers. If adverse impact results the agency or service should comply with these guidelines. If the agency or service seeks to comply with these guidelines by reliance upon validity studies or other data in the possession of the employer, it should obtain and have available such information.
DOL to Use New Standards for Internships Under FLSA
In a recent statement, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) endorsed a new "primary beneficiary" test to determine if interns qualify as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The primary beneficiary test was introduced by the Second Circuit in Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc. and replaces the "six-factor" test that had been used since 2010. These new standards are designed to offer flexibility on an individual basis to conclude if an intern or student is entitled to minimum wages and overtime pay under the FLSA.
Ondray Harris Named New OFCCP Director
The U.S. The Department of Labor (DOL) announced the appointment of Ondray T. Harris as the new Director of OFCCP as of December 10, 2017. Harris is a former deputy chief of employment litigation for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and joined the Labor Department early in 2017 as a senior advisor in the Employment and Training Administration. Harris has practiced law on management-side labor, as well as serving in cases on behalf of military and federal government officials.
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